Devonta
Devonta was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,744 among boys’ names; 3,187 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,100 Americans named Devonta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devonta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devonta?
#4,744 among boys’ names, 2025
Devonta fell from #3,168 in 2015 to #4,744 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 12.3 per million.
330 babies in 1992, the peak
Devonta peaked in 1992, when 330 babies were given it (320 boys, #568 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,744 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,285 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,815 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,169 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,149 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,138 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,910 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,205 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,545 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,168 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,101 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,352 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,553 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,534 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,646 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,121 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,577 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,153 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,335 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,134 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,614 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 86 | #1,471 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,378 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 142 | #1,026 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 138 | #1,011 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 152 | #926 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 156 | #884 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 227 | #700 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 243 | #675 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 294 | #610 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 306 | #588 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 320 | #568 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 60 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,018 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,976 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,490 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,161 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Devonta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,187 Americans recorded as Devonta, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 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 Devonta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devonta, and how old are they?
3,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,187 Americans ever recorded as Devonta. The median Devonta alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,041 people named Devonta (21 women and girls, 2,020 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,995 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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 | 1,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 363 |
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 Devonta born?
The states with the most babies named Devonta are Illinois, Georgia and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 271 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 244 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Texas | 215 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 183 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| Florida | 151 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 146 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| North Carolina | 138 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 132 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 105 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 103 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Devonta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devonta is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1982 it was given 5.7 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 Devonta 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 27,702 babies since 1880, Devonta is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 198 babies (11%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Devonta
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 Devonta and names like it
- Compare Devonta and DevonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDevonta peaked in 1992.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devonta since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Devonta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Devonta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.