Devin
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Devin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 35 | |
| 1950s | 399 | |
| 1960s | 2,728 | |
| 1970s | 6,271 | |
| 1980s | 21,703 | |
| 1990s | 55,071 | |
| 2000s | 49,426 | |
| 2010s | 16,415 | |
| 2020s | 3,637 |
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.
- Devonpeak 1997
- Justynpeak 1998
- Travonpeak 1995
- Zackarypeak 2001
- Dandrepeak 2000
- Brendonpeak 1998
- Devanpeak 1994
- Garrettpeak 2000
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.