Devaughn
Devaughn was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,253 among boys’ names; 2,570 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Devaughn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devaughn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Devaughn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Devaughn is “a male given name of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Devaughn?
#5,253 among boys’ names, 2025
Devaughn fell from #4,585 in 2015 to #5,253 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 10.5 per million.
135 babies in 1993, the peak
Devaughn peaked in 1993, when 135 boys were given it, #924 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,253 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,464 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,487 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,683 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,832 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,455 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,507 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,015 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,604 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,459 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,585 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,047 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,357 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,783 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,084 | 33.7 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,018 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,104 | 32.8 |
| 2008 | 84 | #1,778 | 41.2 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,218 | 28.9 |
| 2006 | 73 | #1,859 | 35.5 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,134 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,165 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,626 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 47 | #2,222 | 24.2 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,183 | 24.2 |
| 2000 | 67 | #1,699 | 34.1 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,829 | 28.1 |
| 1998 | 70 | #1,536 | 36.6 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,295 | 46.7 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,400 | 39.6 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,169 | 51.0 |
| 1994 | 117 | #1,024 | 60.6 |
| 1993 | 135 | #924 | 68.8 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,397 | 33.0 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,260 | 38.6 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,305 | 35.1 |
| 1989 | 57 | #1,453 | 28.5 |
| 1988 | 46 | #1,575 | 24.0 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,942 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,244 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,086 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,245 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,914 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,353 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,053 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,869 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,610 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,512 | 23.1 |
| 1977 | 28 | #1,833 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,263 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,598 | 20.5 |
| 1974 | 27 | #1,761 | 17.2 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,514 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,860 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,011 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,369 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,451 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,799 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,824 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,098 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,662 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,029 | 3.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,436 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,811 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,843 | 4.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,452 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,647 | 3.1 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,626 | 4.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,153 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,906 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,105 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,816 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Devaughn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devaughn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devaughn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devaughn, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,570 Americans ever recorded as Devaughn. The median Devaughn alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,897 people named Devaughn (54 women and girls, 1,843 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 234 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 884 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 963 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 328 |
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 Devaughn born?
The states with the most babies named Devaughn are New York, California and Ohio, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 200 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 161 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 98 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 73 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 54 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| District of Columbia | 28 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Maryland | 27 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Devaughn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devaughn is most over-represented in New York: since 1926 it was given 1.2 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 Devaughn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Devaughn
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 Devaughn and names like it
- Compare Devaughn and CurranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDevaughn peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devaughn since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Devaughn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devaughn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.