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Devansh vs Devyn

American parents have registered 16,215 Devyns since 1880, against 1,037 Devanshes. Devyn is still ahead, with 217 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Devansh against Devyn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Devansh Devyn

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

Devyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Devansh had 88 and Devyn had 217.

Side by side

  Devansh Devyn
Total US births 1,03716,215
Most in one year 119664
Babies in 2025 88217
Estimated living today 1,00016,000
Median age today 721
Peak year 20172000
Best rank 1,439th boys699th girls
Rank in 2025 1,808th1,295th
First recorded 20001974
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0379,422 / 6,793

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 Devyns alive today are over 21; half the Devanshes are over 7. That is 14 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 Devyn
England and Wales 27869
Scotland 374
Ireland 313

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