Deven
Deven was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,895 among boys’ names; 11,986 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,600 Americans named Deven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deven?
#2,895 among boys’ names, 2025
Deven fell from #1,523 in 2015 to #2,895 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 56.3 to 25.2 per million.
531 babies in 2000, the peak
Deven peaked in 2000, when 531 babies were given it (491 boys, #479 among boys’ names). The 43 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 43 | #2,895 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,924 | 51 | #2,606 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 47 | #2,743 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 47 | #2,759 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 57 | #2,384 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 41 | #2,894 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 68 | #2,114 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,827 | 65 | #2,150 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 89 | #1,738 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 96 | #1,656 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,135 | 108 | #1,523 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 141 | #1,264 | |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,254 | 175 | #1,071 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,518 | 192 | #1,017 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,900 | 231 | #893 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,855 | 263 | #815 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,431 | 353 | #687 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,268 | 350 | #686 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,828 | 359 | #669 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,366 | 393 | #608 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,072 | 457 | #532 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,038 | 479 | #511 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,702 | 478 | #508 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,091 | 447 | #510 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,963 | 465 | #494 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,343 | 491 | #479 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,112 | 464 | #479 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,162 | 444 | #491 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,832 | 391 | #516 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,209 | 355 | #540 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,934 | 351 | #542 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,759 | 302 | #593 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,455 | 290 | #608 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,577 | 291 | #604 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,912 | 217 | #683 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,130 | 195 | #727 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,695 | 157 | #790 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,112 | 141 | #798 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,793 | 132 | #810 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,071 | 87 | #991 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,314 | 87 | #974 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,744 | 92 | #919 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,401 | 83 | #968 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,033 | 37 | #1,624 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,085 | 33 | #1,736 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,106 | 48 | #1,360 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,798 | 38 | #1,539 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,491 | 59 | #1,155 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,010 | 39 | #1,480 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 26 | #1,889 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,359 | 27 | #1,799 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,877 | 24 | #1,899 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,960 | 26 | #1,745 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,590 | 15 | #2,458 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 28 | #1,680 | |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,823 | 18 | #2,142 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,569 | 21 | #1,822 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,251 | 25 | #1,586 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,041 | 22 | #1,670 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 16 | #1,982 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,973 | 19 | #1,822 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 16 | #2,053 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 11 | #2,566 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 9 | #2,896 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 11 | #2,581 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,453 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,024 | 5 | #4,126 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,631 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 9 | #2,816 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #3,960 |
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 Deven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,986 Americans recorded as Deven, 11% are girls and 89% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Deven every year since 1983. In 2025 it went to 43 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 Deven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deven, and how old are they?
11,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 11,986 Americans ever recorded as Deven. The median Deven alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 10,015 people named Deven (1,169 women and girls, 8,846 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,462 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 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 656 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
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 Deven born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,865 | 0.8× |
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 Deven 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, Deven is the fourth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 1,005 babies (4.3%), again the fourth 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 Deven
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 Deven and names like it
- Compare Deven and DevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDeven peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deven since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Deven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.