Devona
Devona was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 2,705 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,130 Americans named Devona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 40 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,238, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
97 babies in 1970, the peak
Devona peaked in 1970, when 97 girls were given it, #1,182 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,238 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,919 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,377 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,129 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,903 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,761 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,558 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,327 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,724 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,963 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 16 | #6,138 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,575 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,339 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,604 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,760 | 24.6 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,000 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,398 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,739 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,176 | 31.1 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,668 | 22.8 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,450 | 24.7 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,102 | 29.9 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,147 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,959 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,004 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,678 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,194 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,418 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,985 | 31.9 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,777 | 38.0 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,439 | 52.2 |
| 1977 | 78 | #1,432 | 50.9 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,502 | 47.1 |
| 1975 | 86 | #1,295 | 59.0 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,287 | 56.6 |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,486 | 43.9 |
| 1972 | 79 | #1,296 | 51.9 |
| 1971 | 96 | #1,188 | 57.7 |
| 1970 | 97 | #1,182 | 55.5 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,388 | 40.9 |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,349 | 41.5 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,567 | 31.5 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,262 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,357 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,365 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,382 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,555 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,258 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,322 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,245 | 12.8 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,222 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,960 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,209 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,420 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,133 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,377 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,830 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,929 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,799 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,850 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,269 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,552 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,555 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,960 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,448 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,365 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,234 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,965 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,485 | 23.6 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,518 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,964 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,114 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,966 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,862 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,321 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,849 | 17.9 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,770 | 18.7 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,813 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,222 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,901 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,212 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,778 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,183 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,820 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,696 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,179 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,824 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,532 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,376 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,055 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,862 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,421 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,331 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,198 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,285 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,195 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,073 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Devona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devona, and how old are they?
2,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 2,705 Americans ever recorded as Devona. The median Devona alive today is 51 years old; half are between 40 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,934 people named Devona (1,923 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 77 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 349 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,010 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 582 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 105 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,597 babies since 1880, Devona is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 none of their 96 babies recorded by SSA was a Devona (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Devona
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 Devona and names like it
- Compare Devona and DevonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDevona peaked in 1970.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devona since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Devona.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Devona alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.