Devontae
Devontae was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,529 among boys’ names; 2,990 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Devontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Devontae mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Devontae is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
/dəˈvɑːn.teɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Devontae?
#3,529 among boys’ names, 2025
Devontae fell from #2,390 in 2015 to #3,529 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.2 to 18.7 per million.
211 babies in 1992, the peak
Devontae peaked in 1992, when 211 boys were given it, #706 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,529 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,923 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,241 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,554 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,738 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,299 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,668 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,812 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,483 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,390 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 55 | #2,347 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,257 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,107 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 56 | #2,291 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,290 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,013 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,042 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,685 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 73 | #1,860 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,776 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 87 | #1,531 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 88 | #1,479 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,412 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,167 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,164 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 112 | #1,161 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,097 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 136 | #967 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 140 | #928 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 154 | #876 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 149 | #886 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 193 | #750 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 211 | #706 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 48 | #1,701 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,707 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,926 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,579 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,477 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Devontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devontae has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devontae, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,990 Americans ever recorded as Devontae. The median Devontae alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,013 people named Devontae (9 women and girls, 2,004 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 937 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 594 |
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 Devontae born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,683 | 1.6× |
Where Devontae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devontae is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1986 it was given 2.3 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 Devontae 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, Devontae is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 198 babies (16%), the third 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 Devontae
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 Devontae and names like it
- Compare Devontae and DevonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDevontae peaked in 1992.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devontae since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Devontae: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Devontae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devontae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.