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Deven vs Devron

American parents have registered 11,986 Devens since 1880, against 900 Devrons. Deven is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deven Devron

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 71 years in which either name was published, Deven for 70 years and Devron for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Deven Devron
Total US births 11,986900
Most in one year 53141
Babies in 2025 43under 5
Estimated living today 12,000850
Median age today 2533
Peak year 20001990
Best rank 479th boys1,870th boys
Rank in 2025 2,884thunranked
First recorded 19541949
Girls / boys 1,316 / 10,6700 / 900

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 Devrons alive today are over 33; half the Devens are over 25. That is 8 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.

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