Devlyn
Devlyn was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 609 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devlyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,675, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 2008, the peak
Devlyn peaked in 2008, when 34 babies were given it (18 boys, #5,114 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,927 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #12,675 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,579 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,528 | 6 | #11,105 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,479 | 5 | #12,506 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,277 | 5 | #12,625 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,183 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,929 | 11 | #7,218 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,096 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,726 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #8,159 | 6 | #11,066 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,467 | 10 | #7,662 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,763 | 13 | #6,402 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,756 | 15 | #5,737 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 16 | #5,542 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,745 | 18 | #5,146 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,845 | 18 | #5,114 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,993 | 16 | #5,489 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,713 | 13 | #6,188 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,046 | 21 | #4,227 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,823 | 21 | #4,151 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,859 | 19 | #4,316 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,449 | 11 | #6,182 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 17 | #4,528 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,708 | 12 | #5,650 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,121 | 16 | #4,394 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,777 | 8 | #7,018 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 14 | #4,503 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,363 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,036 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,810 | 9 | #5,979 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,077 | 8 | #6,359 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,617 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,603 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,153 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,272 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,297 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,837 | under 5 |
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 Devlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 609 Americans recorded as Devlyn, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Devlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devlyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 599 Americans named Devlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 620 people named Devlyn (289 women and girls, 331 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Devlyn?
Devlyn is a less common spelling of Devlin: SSA has recorded 609 Devlyn and 3,442 Devlin since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,148 babies since 1880, Devlyn is the second most given (15% 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 Devlyn
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 Devlyn and names like it
- Compare Devlyn and DevlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDevlyn peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Devlyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devlyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.