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Devin vs Devynn

American parents have registered 173,806 Devins since 1880, against 1,300 Devynns. Devin is still ahead, with 634 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devin Devynn

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 2017, when Devin had 1,145 and Devynn had 32.

Side by side

  Devin Devynn
Total US births 173,8061,300
Most in one year 6,93864
Babies in 2025 63415
Estimated living today 168,0001,300
Median age today 2719
Peak year 19982009
Best rank 62nd boys3,000th girls
Rank in 2025 548th7,133rd
First recorded 19471987
Girls / boys 17,556 / 156,2501,110 / 190

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 Devynns are over 19. 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: Devin and Devynn.