Meaning not yet researched.
Devlin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,149 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,149 in 2003; #6,547 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Devlin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,547 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,149.
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Devlin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,149 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 140 (2007).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Devlin, making it the 6,547th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3 places from #6,550 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 13 boys named Devlin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,149, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 140, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,259 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Devlin in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 3,442 US babies have been given the name, 5.7% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,201 babies named Devlin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 263 US boys were named Devlin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Devlyn, Devlon and Devlynn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Devlyn (609), Devlon (97), Devlynn (78), Devlan (29), Devlen (23).
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 Devlin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 13 | #6,547 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,550 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,799 | 22 | #4,632 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,894 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,496 | 27 | #3,936 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,172 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,795 | 26 | #4,035 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,323 | 44 | #2,762 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,511 | 29 | #3,697 |
| 2016 | — | — | 45 | #2,696 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,987 | 59 | #2,259 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,450 | 71 | #2,007 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,127 | 62 | #2,144 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,470 | 82 | #1,803 |
| 2011 | — | — | 77 | #1,839 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,732 | 90 | #1,699 |
| 2009 | — | — | 116 | #1,445 |
| 2008 | — | — | 108 | #1,505 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,037 | 140 | #1,256 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,717 | 128 | #1,294 |
| 2005 | — | — | 119 | #1,292 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,828 | 132 | #1,180 |
| 2003 | — | — | 131 | #1,149 |
| 2002 | — | — | 102 | #1,309 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,575 | 94 | #1,359 |
| 2000 | — | — | 102 | #1,274 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,058 | 85 | #1,388 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,771 | 95 | #1,272 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,050 | 89 | #1,288 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,256 | 73 | #1,425 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,255 | 71 | #1,406 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,757 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,826 | 70 | #1,384 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,184 | 50 | #1,703 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,572 | 43 | #1,838 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,790 | 44 | #1,785 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,688 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,388 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,791 | 23 | #2,414 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,940 | 35 | #1,767 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,244 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,665 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,278 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,532 | 24 | #2,178 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,218 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,305 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,401 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,154 | 20 | #2,304 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,008 | 21 | #2,224 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,857 |
| 1975 | — | — | 36 | #1,482 |
| 1974 | — | — | 39 | #1,374 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,764 | 19 | #2,148 |
| 1972 | — | — | 38 | #1,368 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,422 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,297 | 28 | #1,630 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,339 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,588 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,267 |
| 1966 | — | — | 19 | #1,769 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,838 |
| 1964 | — | — | 19 | #1,861 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,903 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,413 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,212 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,128 |
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).