Deven

Where Deven comes from

Deven hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1937
    Deven Verma born
    Indian actor
  2. 1954
    First appearance
    #3,827 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1969
    Deven Bhojani born
    Indian actor
  4. 1981
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2000
    Peak, #479
    491 babies named Deven — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #893.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Deven Verma · Indian actor, 1937–2014
  • Deven Bhojani · Indian actor, born 1969
  • Deven Marrero · American baseball player, born 1990
  • Deven May · American actor, born 1971
  • Deven Sharma · American businessman, born 1956

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.