Meaning not yet researched.
Deven: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #479 in 2000; #2,896 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deven in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,896 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #479.
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Deven: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #479 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 491 (2000).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Deven, making it the 2,896th most common boys’ name of the year, down 290 places from #2,606 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 51 boys named Deven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #479, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 491. For comparison, it was #1,523 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Deven in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,491, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #11,140 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deven in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 11,986 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,500 babies named Deven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 604 US boys were named Deven; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Deven ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,865 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), Devon (92,976 babies since 1880), Devan (18,800 babies since 1880) and Devyn (16,215 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dehaven 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: Dehaven (77).
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 Deven 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,865 | #1,091 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,896 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,929 | 51 | #2,606 |
| 2023 | — | — | 47 | #2,744 |
| 2022 | — | — | 47 | #2,761 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,385 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,895 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,115 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,832 | 65 | #2,151 |
| 2017 | — | — | 89 | #1,738 |
| 2016 | — | — | 96 | #1,656 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,140 | 108 | #1,523 |
| 2014 | — | — | 141 | #1,264 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,259 | 175 | #1,071 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,524 | 192 | #1,017 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,904 | 231 | #893 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,859 | 263 | #815 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,434 | 353 | #687 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,273 | 350 | #686 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,832 | 359 | #669 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,369 | 393 | #608 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,077 | 457 | #532 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,042 | 479 | #511 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,707 | 478 | #508 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,095 | 447 | #510 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,967 | 465 | #494 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,348 | 491 | #479 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,115 | 464 | #479 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,165 | 444 | #491 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,835 | 391 | #516 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,212 | 355 | #540 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,939 | 351 | #542 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,764 | 302 | #594 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,460 | 290 | #609 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,582 | 291 | #606 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,918 | 217 | #687 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,135 | 195 | #730 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,701 | 157 | #793 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,117 | 141 | #799 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,795 | 132 | #811 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,073 | 87 | #992 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,316 | 87 | #975 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,745 | 92 | #919 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,402 | 83 | #968 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,034 | 37 | #1,625 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,085 | 33 | #1,737 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,106 | 48 | #1,360 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,798 | 38 | #1,539 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,491 | 59 | #1,155 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,011 | 39 | #1,480 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,890 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,361 | 27 | #1,800 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,878 | 24 | #1,899 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,962 | 26 | #1,745 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,592 | 15 | #2,458 |
| 1971 | — | — | 28 | #1,681 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,824 | 18 | #2,143 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,571 | 21 | #1,823 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,252 | 25 | #1,587 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,042 | 22 | #1,671 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,983 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,974 | 19 | #1,823 |
| 1964 | — | — | 16 | #2,054 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,567 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,897 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,582 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,454 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,025 | 5 | #4,127 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,632 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,817 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,961 |
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).