Devine
Devine is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,217 among girls’ names and #5,922 among boys’, #7,933 among all names counting both); 1,619 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Devine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devine?
#5,922 among boys’ names, 2025
Devine rose from #8,945 in 2015 to #5,922 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.8 per million.
68 babies in 2001, the peak
Devine peaked in 2001, when 68 babies were given it (32 boys, #2,875 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,217 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,574 | 13 | #6,544 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,283 | 14 | #6,286 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,733 | 14 | #6,220 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,749 | 8 | #9,022 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,098 | 15 | #5,776 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,845 | 12 | #6,871 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,488 | 18 | #5,147 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,958 | 16 | #5,587 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,583 | 13 | #6,440 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,060 | 8 | #8,945 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,045 | 6 | #11,065 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,534 | 22 | #4,358 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,996 | 18 | #5,081 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,201 | 11 | #7,116 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,145 | 20 | #4,716 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,163 | 19 | #4,969 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,474 | 13 | #6,490 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,847 | 15 | #5,715 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,609 | 22 | #4,255 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,314 | 22 | #4,085 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,099 | 36 | #2,851 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,703 | 23 | #3,752 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,827 | 15 | #4,961 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,646 | 32 | #2,875 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,003 | 30 | #2,929 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,909 | 25 | #3,196 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,268 | 25 | #3,114 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,548 | 28 | #2,771 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,213 | 23 | #3,133 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,742 | 19 | #3,452 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,786 | 28 | #2,635 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,641 | 26 | #2,722 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,389 | 36 | #2,135 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,783 | 30 | #2,347 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,505 | 28 | #2,448 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,097 | 22 | #2,804 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #5,925 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,783 | 13 | #3,577 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,392 | 16 | #3,031 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,808 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,829 | 14 | #3,134 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,698 | 8 | #4,611 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,700 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,796 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,258 | 6 | #5,524 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,050 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,423 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,002 |
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 Devine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,619 Americans recorded as Devine, 48% are girls and 52% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Devine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devine, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,619 Americans ever recorded as Devine. The median Devine alive today is 23 years old; half are between 14 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,255 people named Devine (662 women and girls, 593 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,438 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 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 26 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 399 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 784 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 373 |
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 Devine born?
The states with the most babies named Devine are New York, California and Texas, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 140 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Devine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devine is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 1.3 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 Devine 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,524 babies since 1880, Devine is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 30 babies (100%), 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 Devine
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 Devine and names like it
- Compare Devine and DevoneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDevine peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devine since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Devine.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devine alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.