Devone — boys' name
730 babies named Devone in U.S. Social Security records since 1961, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Devone was born in this single decade.
35 babies were named Devone in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Devone
The Social Security Administration has registered 730 babies named Devone between 1961 and 2022, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Devone currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Devone is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 122 additional births since 1952.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Devone performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 251 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Devone shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 56 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Devone in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Devone in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 730 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Devone at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Devone popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1961
- Peak year (1993)
- 35
- Annual births at peak — across 62 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
730 total births across 62 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 35 births in a single year.
Devone popularity over time — girls
122 total births recorded since 1952 (Devone as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Devone accounts for 14% of total recorded use across both genders.
Devone by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 251 births that decade — 34% of Devone's all-time total
Devone decade highlights
- Peak decade 251 births
- Runner-up 167 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Devone's strongest decade
251 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Devone by state
Where Devone concentrates geographically — total births since 1961
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 56 | 7.7% |
| #2 | California | | 16 | 2.2% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.8% |
56 of 730 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 7.7% of nationwide
- California 2.2% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 7.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1961–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.