Devan
Devan was given to 53 boys in 2025, #2,522 among boys’ names; 18,800 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,200 Americans named Devan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Devan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Devan is “a unisex given name, alternative spelling of Devin”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Devan?
#2,522 among boys’ names, 2025
Devan fell from #1,419 in 2015 to #2,522 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 63.1 to 31.0 per million.
958 babies in 1991, the peak
Devan peaked in 1991, when 958 babies were given it (509 boys, #440 among boys’ names). The 53 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 53 | #2,522 | |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,573 | 53 | #2,535 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,524 | 50 | #2,622 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,209 | 63 | #2,275 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,608 | 58 | #2,350 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,356 | 71 | #2,005 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,230 | 78 | #1,904 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,673 | 85 | #1,796 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,606 | 96 | #1,652 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,654 | 131 | #1,358 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,798 | 121 | #1,419 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,803 | 151 | #1,214 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,074 | 150 | #1,192 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,147 | 203 | #985 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,388 | 208 | #953 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,046 | 239 | #877 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,976 | 291 | #780 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,130 | 301 | #749 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,519 | 410 | #610 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,291 | 418 | #587 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,241 | 423 | #561 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,158 | 487 | #502 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,951 | 519 | #480 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,083 | 441 | #515 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,451 | 501 | #472 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,533 | 460 | #496 |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,320 | 524 | #440 |
| 1998 | 161 | #1,166 | 592 | #409 |
| 1997 | 200 | #975 | 566 | #408 |
| 1996 | 254 | #807 | 533 | #421 |
| 1995 | 295 | #708 | 599 | #390 |
| 1994 | 293 | #710 | 646 | #367 |
| 1993 | 312 | #694 | 568 | #407 |
| 1992 | 360 | #628 | 579 | #397 |
| 1991 | 449 | #520 | 509 | #440 |
| 1990 | 321 | #668 | 387 | #492 |
| 1989 | 166 | #1,030 | 357 | #505 |
| 1988 | 123 | #1,218 | 263 | #570 |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,319 | 202 | #644 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,425 | 181 | #668 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,635 | 155 | #711 |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,568 | 109 | #841 |
| 1983 | 87 | #1,374 | 111 | #828 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,658 | 55 | #1,258 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,717 | 39 | #1,553 |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,382 | 45 | #1,416 |
| 1979 | 92 | #1,338 | 48 | #1,342 |
| 1978 | 128 | #1,054 | 66 | #1,070 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,925 | 52 | #1,224 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 28 | #1,794 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,247 | 23 | #2,020 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,943 | 28 | #1,710 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 27 | #1,706 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 15 | #2,457 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,657 | 29 | #1,643 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,301 | 19 | #2,078 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,568 | 9 | #3,121 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,428 | 20 | #1,796 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 15 | #2,051 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 16 | #1,981 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 22 | #1,678 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 23 | #1,665 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,336 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 8 | #3,110 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,210 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,452 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 11 | #2,565 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 10 | #2,686 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,322 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,630 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 10 | #2,618 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,628 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #2,969 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,408 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,451 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #3,993 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Devan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 18,800 Americans recorded as Devan, 27% are girls and 73% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Devan every year since 1983. In 2025 it went to 53 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 Devan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devan, and how old are they?
18,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 18,800 Americans ever recorded as Devan. The median Devan alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 15,607 people named Devan (4,567 women and girls, 11,040 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 97 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 769 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,350 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Devan born?
The states with the most babies named Devan are Texas, California and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,785 | 0.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,039 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,903 | 0.8× |
Where Devan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devan is most over-represented in Utah: since 1924 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Devan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 301,385 babies since 1880, Devan is the third most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 1,005 babies (5.3%), again the third most given.
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 Devan
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 Devan and names like it
- Compare Devan and DevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDevan peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devan since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Devan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Devan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.