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Devantae vs Devon

American parents have registered 92,976 Devons since 1880, against 168 Devantaes. Devon is still ahead, with 260 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Devantae against Devon, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Devantae Devon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Devon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Devantae had 7 and Devon had 341.

Side by side

  Devantae Devon
Total US births 16892,976
Most in one year 194,001
Babies in 2025 under 5260
Estimated living today 16089,000
Median age today 2829
Peak year 19941997
Best rank 3,469th boys119th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,028th
First recorded 19921914
Girls / boys 0 / 16820,303 / 72,673

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Devantae and Devon.