girls:
20.2k births since 1926
#1025 (82nd percentile)
boys:
72.2k births since 1914
#387 (92nd percentile)
overall:
92.4k births since 1914
#725 (91st percentile)
The name Devon is the #725 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 92,420 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 90.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #387 (91.6% percentile) for all time with 72,204 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #1,025 (82.1% percentile) for all time with 20,216 births since 1926.
Devon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1926 for girls).
The name Devon has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 84.1% of babies named Devon were boys.
For boys, Devon reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 85.4% percentile (ranked #118) with 1,548 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 1,596 births per million (ranked 85.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Devon ranks #664 for boys (27.1% percentile) with 139 births per million, which is 8.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Devon reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 73.6% percentile (ranked #225) with 593 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 593 births per million (ranked 73.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Devon ranks #904 for girls (4.5% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Devon".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Devon", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 17 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Devin" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Devin..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Devon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.1% confident that Devon is pronounced as DEH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-vuhn, at 8.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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