Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Devon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Devon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Devon” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Devon” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Devon” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Devon” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Devon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Devon” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 -100%
1918 17 0.00000783 17 -100%
1919 24 0.000011373 24 -100%
1920 26 0.000011491 26 -100%
1921 22 0.000009424 22 -100%
1922 21 0.000009174 21 -100%
1923 22 0.000009555 22 -100%
1924 19 0.000007978 19 -100%
1925 26 0.000011143 26 -100%
1926 39 0.000016987 5 34 -74%
1927 30 0.000012935 30 -100%
1928 25 0.000011057 25 -100%
1929 32 0.000014597 32 -100%
1930 36 0.000016192 36 -100%
1931 42 0.000019958 6 36 -71%
1932 38 0.000017998 5 33 -74%
1933 28 0.000014004 28 -100%
1934 30 0.000014445 30 -100%
1935 44 0.000021054 5 39 -77%
1936 33 0.000015884 33 -100%
1937 40 0.000018773 6 34 -70%
1938 38 0.000017175 38 -100%
1939 27 0.000012254 27 -100%
1940 34 0.000014765 34 -100%
1941 38 0.000015597 5 33 -74%
1942 34 0.000012446 7 27 -59%
1943 33 0.000011692 33 -100%
1944 45 0.000016728 14 31 -38%
1945 53 0.000019978 20 33 -25%
1946 41 0.000012831 10 31 -51%
1947 46 0.00001277 17 29 -26%
1948 60 0.000017379 30 30 0%
1949 55 0.000015783 23 32 -16%
1950 80 0.000022835 37 43 -8%
1951 78 0.000021174 41 37 5%
1952 79 0.0000208 29 50 -27%
1953 100 0.000025949 57 43 14%
1954 95 0.000023865 40 55 -16%
1955 99 0.000024657 43 56 -13%
1956 86 0.000020858 38 48 -12%
1957 82 0.000019514 41 41 0%
1958 84 0.00002032 38 46 -10%
1959 93 0.000022367 38 55 -18%
1960 98 0.000023593 36 62 -27%
1961 118 0.000028487 53 65 -10%
1962 122 0.000030233 41 81 -33%
1963 191 0.000048254 87 104 -9%
1964 178 0.000045787 63 115 -29%
1965 179 0.000049373 74 105 -17%
1966 198 0.000056968 78 120 -21%
1967 217 0.000063919 68 149 -37%
1968 246 0.000072815 85 161 -31%
1969 253 0.000072799 84 169 -34%
1970 302 0.000083737 99 203 -34%
1971 291 0.000084781 100 191 -31%
1972 292 0.000092905 95 197 -35%
1973 351 0.000116345 81 270 -54%
1974 445 0.000146382 93 352 -58%
1975 423 0.000140094 109 314 -48%
1976 428 0.000141054 123 305 -43%
1977 771 0.00024272 329 442 -15%
1978 1177 0.000370841 760 417 29%
1979 1167 0.000350766 757 410 30%
1980 1157 0.000335897 721 436 25%
1981 934 0.000269991 550 384 18%
1982 962 0.000274233 502 460 4%
1983 1329 0.000383734 579 750 -13%
1984 1360 0.000389824 509 851 -25%
1985 1382 0.000387211 405 977 -41%
1986 1488 0.000418321 435 1053 -42%
1987 1613 0.000447358 418 1195 -48%
1988 1884 0.000509872 443 1441 -53%
1989 2341 0.00060893 625 1716 -47%
1990 3055 0.000772933 997 2058 -35%
1991 3679 0.00094448 1205 2474 -34%
1992 3693 0.0009614 920 2773 -50%
1993 3641 0.000965711 915 2726 -50%
1994 3735 0.001004666 701 3034 -62%
1995 4000 0.001092253 887 3113 -56%
1996 3557 0.00097527 650 2907 -63%
1997 3772 0.001040337 583 3189 -69%
1998 3650 0.000992331 503 3147 -72%
1999 3447 0.000933168 447 3000 -74%
2000 3345 0.000884943 371 2974 -78%
2001 3016 0.000805687 294 2722 -81%
2002 2675 0.000715568 280 2395 -79%
2003 2851 0.000749806 324 2527 -77%
2004 2618 0.000685175 290 2328 -78%
2005 2353 0.000611988 256 2097 -78%
2006 2174 0.000549519 189 1985 -83%
2007 2050 0.000512797 188 1862 -82%
2008 1655 0.000421048 145 1510 -82%
2009 1356 0.000354958 121 1235 -82%
2010 1138 0.000307922 111 1027 -80%
2011 959 0.00026218 105 854 -78%
2012 833 0.000227759 93 740 -78%
2013 727 0.000199415 83 644 -77%
2014 610 0.000164581 82 528 -73%
2015 596 0.000161041 78 518 -74%
2016 552 0.000150462 61 491 -78%
2017 489 0.000136738 68 421 -72%
2018 440 0.000125146 59 381 -73%
2019 395 0.000113802 53 342 -73%
2020 435 0.000130217 51 384 -77%
2021 373 0.000110096 52 321 -72%
2022 340 0.000100499 50 290 -71%
2023 304 0.00009181 48 256 -68%
2024 277 0.000083221 41 236 -70%

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