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Devine

About 1,619 American babies have been named Devine since 1955, most of them around 1992. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 1,600 Devines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Devine boys named Devine

Girls and boys called Devine

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

Devine crossed from boys to girls in 1998, and has stayed there for 6 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 69% girls, and in 2025 it was 50%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 35 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
1,619
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
22
Peak year
1992
Best rank
2,128th
Rank in 2025
5,861st
First recorded
1955
Girls / boys
784 / 835

How old the living Devines are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,619 babies given the name since 1955, about 1,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 580 of them are children and 3 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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.

Where Devine is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Devine is most concentrated in New York (6.3×), California (3.5×), Texas (1.4×).

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

Names of 1992

The most popular boys’ names the year Devine peaked:

All the names of 1992

Devine elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Devine 16 3,725th
England and Wales boys Devine 3 4,052nd

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.

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Devine 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.