Devani
Devani was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,285 among girls’ names; 493 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devani?
#5,285 among girls’ names, 2025
Devani rose from #7,362 in 2015 to #5,285 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 14.9 per million.
36 babies in 2024, the peak
Devani peaked in 2024, when 36 girls were given it, #4,059 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,285 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,059 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,223 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,696 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,926 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,737 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,787 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,487 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,920 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,030 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,362 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,788 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,465 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,171 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,898 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,955 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,780 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,608 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,891 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,938 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,644 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,559 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,208 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,946 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,332 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,001 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,962 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,878 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,157 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,102 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,830 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,807 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,075 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,856 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,894 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,670 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,969 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Devani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devani, and how old are they?
An estimated 488 Americans named Devani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 397 people named Devani (367 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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 6,822 babies since 1880, Devani is the fourth most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 91 babies (26%), the third 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 Devani
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 Devani and names like it
- Compare Devani and DevonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devani alive today were born 1997-2012.
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