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Devaunte vs Deven

American parents have registered 11,986 Devens since 1880, against 130 Devauntes. Deven is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devaunte 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

Deven has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Devaunte had 5 and Deven had 41.

Side by side

  Devaunte Deven
Total US births 13011,986
Most in one year 28531
Babies in 2025 under 543
Estimated living today 13012,000
Median age today 3025
Peak year 19922000
Best rank 2,532nd boys479th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,884th
First recorded 19921954
Girls / boys 0 / 1301,316 / 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 Devauntes alive today are over 30; half the Devens are over 25. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Devaunte Deven
England and Wales 3301

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: Devaunte and Deven.