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Devere vs Devin

American parents have registered 173,806 Devins since 1880, against 705 Deveres. Devin is still ahead, with 634 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Devere against Devin, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Devere Devin

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 113 years in which either name was published, Devin for 78 years and Devere for 35 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Devere Devin
Total US births 705173,806
Most in one year 266,938
Babies in 2025 under 5634
Estimated living today 200168,000
Median age today 6027
Peak year 19161998
Best rank 1,335th boys62nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked548th
First recorded 19121947
Girls / boys 0 / 70517,556 / 156,250

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 Deveres alive today are over 60; half the Devins are over 27. That is 33 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: Devere and Devin.