Devion
Devion was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,420 among boys’ names; 1,894 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Devion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devion?
#8,420 among boys’ names, 2025
Devion fell from #3,452 in 2015 to #8,420 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 5.3 per million.
112 babies in 2001, the peak
Devion peaked in 2001, when 112 babies were given it (107 boys, #1,242 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,420 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,254 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,995 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,595 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,669 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,897 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,004 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,258 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,903 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,019 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,452 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,470 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,723 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 52 | #2,424 | 27.4 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,812 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,042 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,055 | 33.8 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,129 | 31.4 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,984 | 34.2 |
| 2006 | 78 | #1,777 | 38.0 |
| 2005 | 69 | #1,854 | 34.5 |
| 2004 | 74 | #1,719 | 37.3 |
| 2003 | 81 | #1,564 | 41.0 |
| 2002 | 82 | #1,515 | 42.2 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,242 | 55.1 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,313 | 49.9 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,458 | 41.1 |
| 1998 | 71 | #1,528 | 37.1 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,480 | 38.2 |
| 1996 | 62 | #1,585 | 32.7 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,921 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,932 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,742 | 25.0 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,598 | 27.5 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,952 | 19.3 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,634 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,626 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,877 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,578 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,996 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,857 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,762 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Devion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,894 Americans recorded as Devion, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 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 Devion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devion, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,894 Americans ever recorded as Devion. The median Devion alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,414 people named Devion (57 women and girls, 1,357 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,776 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 297 |
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 Devion born?
The states with the most babies named Devion are Illinois, Texas and California, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 185 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 176 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 98 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 54 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 33 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 26 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Devion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devion is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1984 it was given 2.2 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 Devion 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 301,183 babies since 1880, Devion is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,005 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Devion
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 Devion and names like it
- Compare Devion and DevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDevion peaked in 2001.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devion since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Devion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.