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Devin vs Devion

American parents have registered 173,806 Devins since 1880, against 1,894 Devions. Devin is still ahead, with 634 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devin Devion

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

Devin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Devin had 843 and Devion had 22.

Side by side

  Devin Devion
Total US births 173,8061,894
Most in one year 6,938112
Babies in 2025 6349
Estimated living today 168,0001,900
Median age today 2722
Peak year 19982001
Best rank 62nd boys1,242nd boys
Rank in 2025 548th8,243rd
First recorded 19471984
Girls / boys 17,556 / 156,25026 / 1,868

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 Devins alive today are over 27; half the Devions are over 22. That is 5 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: Devin and Devion.