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Devin vs Devonna

American parents have registered 173,806 Devins since 1880, against 1,747 Devonnas. Devin is still ahead, with 634 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devin Devonna

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 92 years in which either name was published, Devin for 77 years and Devonna for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Devin Devonna
Total US births 173,8061,747
Most in one year 6,93853
Babies in 2025 6345
Estimated living today 168,0001,600
Median age today 2742
Peak year 19981993
Best rank 62nd boys2,380th girls
Rank in 2025 548th14,942nd
First recorded 19471929
Girls / boys 17,556 / 156,2501,747 / 0

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 Devonnas alive today are over 42; half the Devins are over 27. That is 15 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 Devonna.