Meaning not yet researched.
Dev: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,235 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,235 in 2009; #1,427 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dev in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,427 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,235.
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Dev: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,235 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 145 (2009).
In 2025, 126 US boys were named Dev, making it the 1,427th most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #1,398 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 134 boys named Dev in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,235, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #1,541 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dev in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 3,146 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,188 babies named Dev.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,176 US boys were named Dev; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,556 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dev ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #528 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Devin (173,806 babies since 1880) and Devon (92,976 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dever are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dever (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Dev in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 14 | #528 | #596 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #638 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #748 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #836 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,047 | #1,170 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,164 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,251 | #1,261 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,311 | #1,963 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,319 | #1,024 |
| New York | 5 | #1,827 | #1,178 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,902 | #1,120 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 126 | #1,427 |
| 2024 | — | — | 134 | #1,398 |
| 2023 | — | — | 110 | #1,581 |
| 2022 | — | — | 111 | #1,592 |
| 2021 | — | — | 111 | #1,567 |
| 2020 | — | — | 98 | #1,638 |
| 2019 | — | — | 114 | #1,499 |
| 2018 | — | — | 117 | #1,482 |
| 2017 | — | — | 134 | #1,336 |
| 2016 | — | — | 121 | #1,434 |
| 2015 | — | — | 106 | #1,541 |
| 2014 | — | — | 113 | #1,447 |
| 2013 | — | — | 114 | #1,449 |
| 2012 | — | — | 119 | #1,399 |
| 2011 | — | — | 136 | #1,265 |
| 2010 | — | — | 114 | #1,450 |
| 2009 | — | — | 145 | #1,235 |
| 2008 | — | — | 107 | #1,519 |
| 2007 | — | — | 104 | #1,518 |
| 2006 | — | — | 111 | #1,413 |
| 2005 | — | — | 101 | #1,454 |
| 2004 | — | — | 117 | #1,282 |
| 2003 | — | — | 111 | #1,279 |
| 2002 | — | — | 66 | #1,748 |
| 2001 | — | — | 72 | #1,633 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,345 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,506 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,523 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,507 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #4,962 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,599 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,366 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,488 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,140 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,646 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,774 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,969 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,645 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #4,978 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,320 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,226 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,161 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,665 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,915 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,408 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,942 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,721 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,103 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,770 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,745 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,370 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,552 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).