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Devora vs Devyn

American parents have registered 16,215 Devyns since 1880, against 2,893 Devoras. Devyn is still ahead, with 217 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devora 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

Of the 94 years in which either name was published, Devora for 49 years and Devyn for 45 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Devora Devyn
Total US births 2,89316,215
Most in one year 93664
Babies in 2025 91217
Estimated living today 2,70016,000
Median age today 2121
Peak year 20232000
Best rank 2,076th girls699th girls
Rank in 2025 2,064th1,295th
First recorded 19151974
Girls / boys 2,893 / 09,422 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Devora Devyn
England and Wales 6469
France 105

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