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Devon vs Devontre

American parents have registered 92,976 Devons since 1880, against 166 Devontres. Devon is still ahead, with 260 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Devon Devontre

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 2000, when Devon had 3,345 and Devontre had 20.

Side by side

  Devon Devontre
Total US births 92,976166
Most in one year 4,00120
Babies in 2025 260under 5
Estimated living today 89,000160
Median age today 2928
Peak year 19971997
Best rank 119th boys3,455th boys
Rank in 2025 1,028thunranked
First recorded 19141992
Girls / boys 20,303 / 72,6730 / 166

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: Devon and Devontre.