Meaning not yet researched.
Devan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #367 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #367 in 1994; #2,522 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Devan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,522 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #367.
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Devan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 boys in 2025. Peak: #367 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 646 (1994).
In 2025, 53 US boys were named Devan, making it the 2,522nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 13 places from #2,535 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 53 boys named Devan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #367, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 646. For comparison, it was #1,419 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Devan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #520, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 449. For comparison, it was #6,801 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Devan in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 6 babies. In all, 18,800 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 8,284 babies named Devan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 738 US boys were named Devan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 131. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Devan ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,785 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Deven (11,986 babies since 1880), Davante (1,415 babies since 1880), Devin (173,806 babies since 1880) and Devon (92,976 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deva, Divyan and Devanne 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: Deva (986), Divyan (39), Devanne (30).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Devan 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,785 | #1,161 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,903 | #1,301 |
| California | 7 | #2,039 | #1,025 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 53 | #2,522 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,578 | 53 | #2,535 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,529 | 50 | #2,623 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,214 | 63 | #2,276 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,613 | 58 | #2,351 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,361 | 71 | #2,005 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,234 | 78 | #1,904 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,678 | 85 | #1,796 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,610 | 96 | #1,652 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,655 | 131 | #1,358 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,801 | 121 | #1,419 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,805 | 151 | #1,214 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,077 | 150 | #1,192 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,149 | 203 | #985 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,389 | 208 | #953 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,047 | 239 | #877 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,977 | 291 | #780 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,131 | 301 | #749 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,519 | 410 | #610 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,291 | 418 | #587 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,242 | 423 | #561 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,161 | 487 | #502 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,952 | 519 | #480 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,086 | 441 | #515 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,452 | 501 | #472 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,535 | 460 | #496 |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,322 | 524 | #440 |
| 1998 | 161 | #1,168 | 592 | #409 |
| 1997 | 200 | #976 | 566 | #408 |
| 1996 | 254 | #807 | 533 | #421 |
| 1995 | 295 | #709 | 599 | #390 |
| 1994 | 293 | #711 | 646 | #367 |
| 1993 | 312 | #694 | 568 | #407 |
| 1992 | 360 | #628 | 579 | #397 |
| 1991 | 449 | #520 | 509 | #440 |
| 1990 | 321 | #669 | 387 | #493 |
| 1989 | 166 | #1,033 | 357 | #506 |
| 1988 | 123 | #1,219 | 263 | #570 |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,320 | 202 | #644 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,425 | 181 | #668 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,636 | 155 | #711 |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,568 | 109 | #841 |
| 1983 | 87 | #1,374 | 111 | #828 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,658 | 55 | #1,259 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,717 | 39 | #1,554 |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,382 | 45 | #1,416 |
| 1979 | 92 | #1,338 | 48 | #1,342 |
| 1978 | 128 | #1,054 | 66 | #1,070 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,926 | 52 | #1,224 |
| 1976 | — | — | 28 | #1,795 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,249 | 23 | #2,021 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,945 | 28 | #1,710 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,706 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,457 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,659 | 29 | #1,644 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,302 | 19 | #2,079 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,570 | 9 | #3,122 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,430 | 20 | #1,797 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,052 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,982 |
| 1965 | — | — | 22 | #1,679 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,666 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,337 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,111 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,453 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,566 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,687 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,323 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,631 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,619 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,629 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,970 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,409 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,453 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,995 |
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).