Deavon
Deavon was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,933 among boys’ names; 453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deavon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deavon?
#9,933 among boys’ names, 2025
Deavon entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,933 in 2025.
29 babies in 1993, the peak
Deavon peaked in 1993, when 29 babies were given it (23 boys, #2,955 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,933 | 4.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,017 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,906 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,506 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,650 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,045 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,938 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,714 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,181 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,298 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #8,328 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,551 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,083 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,305 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,139 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,810 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,106 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,659 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,738 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,248 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,096 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,048 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,210 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,780 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,955 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,355 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,677 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,071 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,576 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,905 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,205 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,463 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,532 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,496 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,054 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deavon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 453 Americans recorded as Deavon, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deavon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deavon, and how old are they?
An estimated 441 Americans named Deavon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 428 people named Deavon (81 women and girls, 347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 301,383 babies since 1880, Deavon is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,012 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Deavon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Deavon and names like it
- Compare Deavon and DevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeavon peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Deavon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deavon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.