Devontay
Devontay was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,505 among boys’ names; 895 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devontay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devontay?
#12,505 among boys’ names, 2025
Devontay fell from #7,179 in 2015 to #12,505 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 2.9 per million.
84 babies in 1992, the peak
Devontay peaked in 1992, when 84 boys were given it, #1,226 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,505 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,151 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,857 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,898 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,097 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,513 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,772 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,803 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,103 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,441 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,179 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,294 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,664 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,319 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,032 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,775 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,970 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,760 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,855 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,588 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,228 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,839 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,648 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,432 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,280 | 22.6 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,537 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 48 | #1,999 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,402 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,731 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 49 | #1,844 | 25.9 |
| 1995 | 58 | #1,585 | 30.5 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,866 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,825 | 23.5 |
| 1992 | 84 | #1,226 | 42.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,135 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,465 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,208 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,618 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Devontay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devontay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devontay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devontay, and how old are they?
An estimated 873 Americans named Devontay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 564 people named Devontay (4 women and girls, 560 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 19,338 babies since 1880, Devontay is the fourth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 141 babies (3.5%), again the fourth most given.
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 Devontay
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 Devontay and names like it
- Compare Devontay and DevonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDevontay peaked in 1992.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devontay since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Devontay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devontay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.