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Devere vs Devonte

American parents have registered 11,805 Devontes since 1880, against 705 Deveres. Devonte is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devere 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

Of the 99 years in which either name was published, Devere for 53 years and Devonte for 46 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Devere Devonte
Total US births 70511,805
Most in one year 261,334
Babies in 2025 under 583
Estimated living today 20012,000
Median age today 6028
Peak year 19161992
Best rank 1,335th boys226th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,886th
First recorded 19121980
Girls / boys 0 / 70532 / 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 Deveres alive today are over 60; half the Devontes are over 28. That is 32 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 Devonte.