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Devansh vs Deven

American parents have registered 11,986 Devens since 1880, against 1,037 Devanshes. But in 2025 it was Devansh that was commoner, 88 babies to 43.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Devansh against Deven, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Devansh Deven

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Deven for 62 years and Devansh for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Devansh Deven
Total US births 1,03711,986
Most in one year 119531
Babies in 2025 8843
Estimated living today 1,00012,000
Median age today 725
Peak year 20172000
Best rank 1,439th boys479th boys
Rank in 2025 1,808th2,884th
First recorded 20001954
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0371,316 / 10,670

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Devens alive today are over 25; half the Devanshes are over 7. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Devansh Deven
England and Wales 278301
Scotland 33

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Devansh and Deven.