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Devlyn

Devlyn is a boy's name that peaked in 2004, when it was the 4,129th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 600 Devlyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Devlyn boys named Devlyn

By the numbers

Total US births
609
Estimated living today
600
Median age today
18
Peak year
2004
Best rank
4,129th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
268 / 341

How old the living Devlyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 609 babies given the name since 1969, about 600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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.

Names of 2004

The most popular boys’ names the year Devlyn peaked:

All the names of 2004

Devlyn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Devlyn 6 4,333rd
England and Wales girls Devlyn 3 5,876th

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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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.