Devyn
Devyn is given to both girls and boys: 172 girls and 45 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,295 among girls’ names and #2,806 among boys’, #2,099 among all names counting both); 16,215 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Devyn every year since 2009.
An estimated 16,000 Americans named Devyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Devyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Devyn is “a unisex given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Devyn?
#1,295 among girls’ names, 2025
Devyn fell from #1,016 in 2015 to #1,295 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.11 per 1,000.
664 babies in 2000, the peak
Devyn peaked in 2000, when 664 babies were given it (335 girls, #699 among girls’ names). The 217 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 172 | #1,295 | 45 | #2,806 |
| 2024 | 210 | #1,150 | 50 | #2,643 |
| 2023 | 222 | #1,108 | 53 | #2,516 |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,123 | 63 | #2,276 |
| 2021 | 221 | #1,118 | 61 | #2,283 |
| 2020 | 207 | #1,145 | 69 | #2,052 |
| 2019 | 206 | #1,163 | 62 | #2,238 |
| 2018 | 203 | #1,182 | 89 | #1,736 |
| 2017 | 232 | #1,094 | 81 | #1,832 |
| 2016 | 224 | #1,134 | 103 | #1,589 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 263 | #1,016 | 109 | #1,515 |
| 2014 | 255 | #1,023 | 139 | #1,279 |
| 2013 | 258 | #974 | 129 | #1,329 |
| 2012 | 254 | #994 | 173 | #1,081 |
| 2011 | 241 | #1,033 | 176 | #1,066 |
| 2010 | 254 | #993 | 218 | #925 |
| 2009 | 273 | #975 | 244 | #864 |
| 2008 | 243 | #1,076 | 255 | #847 |
| 2007 | 288 | #937 | 250 | #846 |
| 2006 | 244 | #1,051 | 282 | #751 |
| 2005 | 290 | #875 | 274 | #737 |
| 2004 | 269 | #901 | 310 | #657 |
| 2003 | 283 | #855 | 325 | #631 |
| 2002 | 245 | #910 | 281 | #666 |
| 2001 | 306 | #772 | 326 | #603 |
| 2000 | 335 | #699 | 329 | #600 |
| 1999 | 320 | #708 | 333 | #584 |
| 1998 | 287 | #752 | 296 | #617 |
| 1997 | 278 | #760 | 276 | #626 |
| 1996 | 255 | #805 | 284 | #616 |
| 1995 | 253 | #787 | 266 | #634 |
| 1994 | 255 | #796 | 184 | #782 |
| 1993 | 266 | #776 | 186 | #765 |
| 1992 | 274 | #758 | 114 | #1,022 |
| 1991 | 242 | #835 | 93 | #1,133 |
| 1990 | 163 | #1,082 | 70 | #1,321 |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,650 | 52 | #1,548 |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,968 | 40 | #1,735 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,240 | 29 | #2,068 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,992 | 22 | #2,447 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,439 | 16 | #2,978 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,761 | 14 | #3,135 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,155 | 8 | #4,614 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,767 | 7 | #5,162 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,041 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,879 | 7 | #5,070 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,946 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,024 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,985 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,946 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Devyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,215 Americans recorded as Devyn, 58% are girls and 42% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Devyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devyn, and how old are they?
16,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 16,215 Americans ever recorded as Devyn. The median Devyn alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 12,889 people named Devyn (7,529 women and girls, 5,360 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,515 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,920 |
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 Devyn born?
The states with the most babies named Devyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 28 | #1,198 | 0.9× |
| California | 21 | #1,194 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,269 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,040 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 8 | #882 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,249 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #625 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,171 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,076 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,466 | 0.7× |
Where Devyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1974 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Devyn 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,671 babies since 1880, Devyn is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 217 of their 232 babies (94%), again the 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 Devyn
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 Devyn and names like it
- Compare Devyn and DevynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDevyn peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Devyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Devyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.