Devlin
Devlin was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,543 among boys’ names; 3,442 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,320 Americans named Devlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devlin?
#6,543 among boys’ names, 2025
Devlin fell from #2,258 in 2015 to #6,543 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.8 to 7.6 per million.
146 babies in 2007, the peak
Devlin peaked in 2007, when 146 babies were given it (140 boys, #1,256 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,543 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,545 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,628 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,890 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,932 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,168 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,031 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,761 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,693 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,695 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,258 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,006 | 37.0 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,143 | 32.8 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,802 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 77 | #1,838 | 40.5 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,699 | 46.9 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,445 | 58.5 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,505 | 52.9 |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,256 | 67.5 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,294 | 62.3 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,291 | 59.6 |
| 2004 | 132 | #1,178 | 66.5 |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,148 | 66.3 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,306 | 52.5 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,355 | 48.4 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,271 | 51.9 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,385 | 44.3 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,269 | 49.7 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,285 | 47.2 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,423 | 38.5 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,401 | 37.3 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,752 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,379 | 35.7 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,698 | 25.0 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,832 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 44 | #1,780 | 21.4 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,683 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,383 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,410 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,765 | 19.0 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,243 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,664 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,277 | 29.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,177 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,217 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,304 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,400 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,304 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,224 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,856 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 36 | #1,481 | 23.1 |
| 1974 | 39 | #1,374 | 24.8 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,146 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 38 | #1,368 | 23.4 |
| 1971 | 36 | #1,422 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 28 | #1,629 | 15.1 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,338 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,587 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,266 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,768 | 10.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,837 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,860 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,902 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,412 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,211 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,127 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Devlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,442 Americans recorded as Devlin, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 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 Devlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devlin, and how old are they?
3,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,442 Americans ever recorded as Devlin. The median Devlin alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,964 people named Devlin (253 women and girls, 2,711 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 39 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 341 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 717 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 501 |
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 Devlin born?
The states with the most babies named Devlin are California, Texas and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 248 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 132 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 127 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 38 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Devlin 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 4,148 babies since 1880, Devlin is the most given (83% of them).
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 Devlin
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 Devlin and names like it
- Compare Devlin and DevlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDevlin peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devlin since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Devlin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devlin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.