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Devonte vs Devynn

American parents have registered 11,805 Devontes since 1880, against 1,300 Devynns. Devonte is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devonte 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

Devonte has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Devonte had 131 and Devynn had 60.

Side by side

  Devonte Devynn
Total US births 11,8051,300
Most in one year 1,33464
Babies in 2025 8315
Estimated living today 12,0001,300
Median age today 2819
Peak year 19922009
Best rank 226th boys3,000th girls
Rank in 2025 1,886th7,133rd
First recorded 19801987
Girls / boys 32 / 11,7731,110 / 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 Devontes alive today are over 28; half the Devynns are over 19. That is 9 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: Devonte and Devynn.