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Devanta vs Devonte

American parents have registered 11,805 Devontes since 1880, against 229 Devantas. Devonte is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Devanta against Devonte, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Devanta Devonte

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

Devonte has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Devanta had 5 and Devonte had 117.

Side by side

  Devanta Devonte
Total US births 22911,805
Most in one year 411,334
Babies in 2025 under 583
Estimated living today 22012,000
Median age today 3028
Peak year 19921992
Best rank 1,955th boys226th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,886th
First recorded 19921980
Girls / boys 0 / 22932 / 11,773

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 Devantas alive today are over 30; half the Devontes are over 28. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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