Devin

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Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 10% girls / 90% boys

Origin: Dutch

Meaning

Devin is a unisex English-language given name, of many origins. One origin for Devin is from the surname Devin, which is an anglicization of the Irish patronymic Ó Damháin. The Irish patronymic is in reference to the given name 'damán allaid' meaning "fawn", or "poet".

From Wikipedia

Devin first appears in the data in 1947 and has been recorded in 78 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1998 with 6,218 babies (rank #62 that year). In 2024 it was given to 593 boys (rank #515). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Devin

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Devin yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

173,156
Total babies (all years)
78
Years in the data
6,218
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19476#3,458
194812#2,243
194917#1,837
19507#3,101
195118#1,791
195220#1,716
195318#1,851
195435#1,275
195538#1,224
195655#1,013
195764#946
195868#919
195976#879
1960108#742
1961125#685
1962187#573
1963197#563
1964298#460
1965317#434
1966333#415
1967343#412
1968389#395
1969431#379
1970523#355
1971494#364
1972469#358
1973502#338
1974593#307
1975561#319
1976517#333
1977805#252
1978868#241
1979939#236
1980980#236
1981871#251
19821,034#227
19831,893#142
19842,175#123
19852,331#121
19862,446#113
19873,076#99
19883,301#98
19893,596#96
19903,866#98
19914,388#83
19924,972#75
19935,356#71
19946,064#61
19956,192#58
19966,002#60
19976,043#59
19986,218#62
19995,970#68
20006,152#69
20016,039#71
20025,440#74
20035,646#74
20045,167#81
20054,715#90
20064,451#100
20074,425#100
20084,008#109
20093,383#126
20102,845#140
20112,466#157
20122,243#173
20131,847#208
20141,494#252
20151,385#260
20161,175#300
20171,041#331
20181,005#332
2019914#360
2020803#382
2021830#388
2022748#423
2023663#462
2024593#515