Devlin
Devlin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2007140 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1957
- 3,428people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,233 boys have been named Devlin in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 140 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 36%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 195 girls have also been given it, 5.7% of the total.
By decade
In 2007, its biggest year
Devlin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Devlin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Typeak 2005
- Isaccpeak 2003
- Osvaldopeak 2004
- Iainpeak 2003
- Trentonpeak 2007
- Davenpeak 2007
- Christanpeak 2004
- Adreanpeak 2009
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.