Devany
Devany was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,380 among girls’ names; 1,099 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Devany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devany?
#4,380 among girls’ names, 2025
Devany rose from #6,089 in 2015 to #4,380 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 19.9 per million.
55 babies in 2009, the peak
Devany peaked in 2009, when 55 girls were given it, #3,100 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,380 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,797 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,383 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,134 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,610 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,396 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,479 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,832 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,882 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,020 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,089 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,553 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,482 | 25.6 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,382 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,087 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,325 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,100 | 29.9 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,727 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,394 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,380 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,966 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,016 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,748 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,527 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,728 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,358 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,258 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,522 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,071 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,338 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,716 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,411 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,819 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,788 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,563 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,563 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,249 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,579 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Devany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devany has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devany, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,099 Americans ever recorded as Devany. The median Devany alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 837 people named Devany (821 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 928 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 115 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 596 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 377 |
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 Devany born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,458 | 3.6× |
Where Devany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devany is most over-represented in Texas: since 1981 it was given 3.6 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 girls’ 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 Devany 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 6,780 babies since 1880, Devany is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 91 babies (35%), the 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 Devany
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 Devany and names like it
- Compare Devany and DevonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDevany peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devany since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Devany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.