Devin
Devin is given to both girls and boys: 86 girls and 548 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,158 among girls’ names and #548 among boys’, #967 among all names counting both); 173,806 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 168,000 Americans named Devin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Devin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Devin is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage”
Also “a male given name, variant of Devon”
As an Irish, English, and French surname, spelling variant of Devine. Also see Devon.
Also as a French surname, from devin (“fortuneteller”).
As a Russian surname, from дева (deva, “maiden”).
/ˈdɛvɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Devin?
#548 among boys’ names, 2025
Devin fell from #259 in 2015 to #548 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.72 to 0.32 per 1,000.
6,938 babies in 1995, the peak
Devin peaked in 1995, when 6,938 babies were given it (6,193 boys, #58 among boys’ names). The 634 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,158 | 548 | #548 |
| 2024 | 96 | #2,034 | 594 | #516 |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,112 | 665 | #462 |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,071 | 750 | #423 |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,216 | 832 | #388 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,532 | 803 | #382 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,094 | 915 | #360 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,281 | 1,005 | #332 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,945 | 1,042 | #330 |
| 2016 | 107 | #1,890 | 1,175 | #300 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,864 | 1,386 | #259 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,944 | 1,494 | #252 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,852 | 1,847 | #209 |
| 2012 | 153 | #1,479 | 2,244 | #173 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,421 | 2,466 | #157 |
| 2010 | 162 | #1,414 | 2,845 | #140 |
| 2009 | 181 | #1,330 | 3,384 | #126 |
| 2008 | 191 | #1,302 | 4,008 | #109 |
| 2007 | 245 | #1,071 | 4,427 | #100 |
| 2006 | 232 | #1,090 | 4,451 | #100 |
| 2005 | 277 | #905 | 4,715 | #90 |
| 2004 | 342 | #762 | 5,167 | #81 |
| 2003 | 312 | #795 | 5,646 | #74 |
| 2002 | 311 | #772 | 5,440 | #74 |
| 2001 | 410 | #612 | 6,040 | #71 |
| 2000 | 502 | #525 | 6,152 | #69 |
| 1999 | 509 | #508 | 5,970 | #68 |
| 1998 | 559 | #461 | 6,218 | #62 |
| 1997 | 605 | #425 | 6,044 | #59 |
| 1996 | 672 | #394 | 6,001 | #60 |
| 1995 | 745 | #352 | 6,193 | #58 |
| 1994 | 771 | #344 | 6,064 | #61 |
| 1993 | 857 | #310 | 5,356 | #71 |
| 1992 | 1,035 | #274 | 4,972 | #75 |
| 1991 | 1,162 | #238 | 4,388 | #83 |
| 1990 | 862 | #318 | 3,866 | #98 |
| 1989 | 589 | #422 | 3,596 | #96 |
| 1988 | 490 | #457 | 3,302 | #98 |
| 1987 | 440 | #493 | 3,076 | #99 |
| 1986 | 465 | #463 | 2,446 | #113 |
| 1985 | 355 | #556 | 2,331 | #121 |
| 1984 | 297 | #601 | 2,175 | #123 |
| 1983 | 335 | #550 | 1,894 | #142 |
| 1982 | 252 | #697 | 1,034 | #227 |
| 1981 | 250 | #690 | 870 | #251 |
| 1980 | 348 | #542 | 980 | #236 |
| 1979 | 402 | #501 | 939 | #236 |
| 1978 | 418 | #473 | 868 | #241 |
| 1977 | 112 | #1,134 | 805 | #252 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,203 | 517 | #333 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,989 | 561 | #319 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,030 | 593 | #307 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,373 | 502 | #338 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,200 | 469 | #358 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,544 | 494 | #364 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,658 | 523 | #355 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,173 | 431 | #379 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,260 | 389 | #395 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,450 | 343 | #412 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,262 | 333 | #414 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,976 | 317 | #434 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,124 | 298 | #460 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,097 | 197 | #563 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,436 | 187 | #573 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,321 | 125 | #684 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,304 | 108 | #741 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 76 | #879 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 68 | #918 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,025 | 64 | #944 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 55 | #1,012 | |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,429 | 38 | #1,223 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,373 | 35 | #1,274 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,873 | 18 | #1,850 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,761 | 20 | #1,715 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 18 | #1,789 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,100 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 17 | #1,836 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 12 | #2,242 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,454 |
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 Devin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 173,806 Americans recorded as Devin, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Devin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devin, and how old are they?
168,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 173,806 Americans ever recorded as Devin. The median Devin alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 144,827 people named Devin (15,345 women and girls, 129,482 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 165,295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 1,080 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 78,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,200 |
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 Devin born?
The states with the most babies named Devin are California, Texas and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 92 | #416 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 79 | #488 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 35 | #511 | 1.0× |
| New York | 29 | #624 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 29 | #274 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 24 | #454 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 22 | #396 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #495 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #440 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 16 | #604 | 1.0× |
Where Devin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devin is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1947 it was given 1.7 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 Devin 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 301,493 babies since 1880, Devin is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 634 of their 1,005 babies (63%), again the 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 Devin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | 92,976 |
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 Devin and names like it
- Compare Devin and DevonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDevin peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devin since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Devin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Devin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.