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Devion vs Devyn

American parents have registered 16,215 Devyns since 1880, against 1,894 Devions. Devyn is still ahead, with 217 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Devion against Devyn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Devion Devyn

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

Devyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Devion had 11 and Devyn had 41.

Side by side

  Devion Devyn
Total US births 1,89416,215
Most in one year 112664
Babies in 2025 9217
Estimated living today 1,90016,000
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20012000
Best rank 1,242nd boys699th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd1,295th
First recorded 19841974
Girls / boys 26 / 1,8689,422 / 6,793

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.

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: Devion and Devyn.