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Devonte vs Devora

American parents have registered 11,805 Devontes since 1880, against 2,893 Devoras. But in 2025 it was Devora that was commoner, 91 babies to 83.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devonte Devora

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 94 years in which either name was published, Devora for 56 years and Devonte for 38 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Devonte Devora
Total US births 11,8052,893
Most in one year 1,33493
Babies in 2025 8391
Estimated living today 12,0002,700
Median age today 2821
Peak year 19922023
Best rank 226th boys2,076th girls
Rank in 2025 1,886th2,064th
First recorded 19801915
Girls / boys 32 / 11,7732,893 / 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 Devontes alive today are over 28; half the Devoras are over 21. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Devonte Devora
England and Wales 31264

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Devonte and Devora.