girls:
23 births since 1990
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
432 births since 1973
#4154 (9th percentile)
overall:
455 births since 1973
#7284 (6th percentile)
The name Devonn is the #7,284 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 455 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,154 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 432 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1990.
Devonn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Devonn is available in 42 out of the 48 years between 1973 and 2020 (42 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Devonn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Devonn reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #748) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Devonn reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #849) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Devonn".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Devonn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.6% confident that Devonn is pronounced as deh-VAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-VAHN, at 20.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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