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Deven

About 11,986 American babies have been named Deven since 1954, most of them around 2000. In 2025 it ranked 2,884th. About 12,000 Devens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Deven boys named Deven

Girls and boys called Deven

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,316 girls and 10,670 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 43.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 59 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
11,986
Estimated living today
12,000
Median age today
25
Peak year
2000
Best rank
479th
Rank in 2025
2,884th
First recorded
1954
Girls / boys
1,316 / 10,670

How old the living Devens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 11,986 babies given the name since 1954, about 12,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Devens

People named Deven with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Deven is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Deven is most concentrated in Florida (1.9×), Washington (1.7×), Arizona (1.7×), California (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular boys’ names the year Deven peaked:

All the names of 2000

Deven elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Deven +1 spelling 505 1,257th
England and Wales boys Deven 268 1,404th
England and Wales girls Deven 33 1,970th
Belgium boys Deven 5 1,273rd
Scotland girls Deven 3 629th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Deven against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.