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Devin

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Devin is ranked 515th among boys in 2024 (593 births). Its best rank was 58th, in 1995.

Rank in 2024
#515down 53 from 2023
Births in 2024
5930.03% of boys
Peak year
19986,218 births
Best rank
#58in 1995
Since 1947
173,156people given the name
Babies named Devin, by year of birthboys
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

155,685 boys have been named Devin in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 6,218 births — 0.33% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 252 → 515).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 35%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 17,471 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Devin
1940s35
1950s399
1960s2,728
1970s6,271
1980s21,703
1990s55,071
2000s49,426
2010s16,415
2020s3,637

In 1998, its biggest year

Devin was the 62nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.

Names that rose and fell with Devin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.