Devaney
Devaney was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 178 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devaney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devaney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,892, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1991, the peak
Devaney peaked in 1991, when 11 girls were given it, #7,544 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,892 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,157 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,070 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,981 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,244 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,869 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,900 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,479 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,750 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,264 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #17,862 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,194 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,638 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,352 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,994 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,340 | 5.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,044 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,870 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,171 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,748 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,915 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,791 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,544 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,669 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,590 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Devaney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devaney has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devaney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devaney, and how old are they?
An estimated 175 Americans named Devaney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Devaney (188 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Devaney?
Devaney is a less common spelling of Devany: SSA has recorded 178 Devaney and 1,099 Devany since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,862 babies since 1880, Devaney is the sixth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 62 babies recorded by SSA was a Devaney (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Devaney
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 Devaney and names like it
- Compare Devaney and DevanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDevaney peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Devaney.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devaney alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.