Devlin

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to boys 94.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
2003 · 131 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,247
since 1957

Devlin over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #7,749, 1986peak #1,149, 2003girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,44613
2024#6,46913
2023#15,1945#4,61022
2022#4,85020
2021#10,2929#3,91227
2020#4,14124
2019#12,4487#4,00326
2018#15,6825#2,74844
2017#15,9025#3,67829
2016#2,68945
2015#14,4826#2,25359
2014#13,0697#2,00071
2013#14,5826#2,13962
2012#14,9626#1,79982
2011#1,83577
2010#16,9925#1,69790
2009#1,443116
2008#1,504108
2007#15,4916#1,255140
2006#12,4208#1,294128
2005#1,289119
2004#16,0995#1,179132
2003#1,149131
2002#1,305102
2001#9,35110#1,35794
2000#1,271102
1999#14,4115#1,38385
1998#8,58410#1,27195
1997#9,8028#1,28489
1996#11,8076#1,42173
1995#8,07910#1,40571
1994#1,75350
1993#9,5598#1,37970
1992#11,7386#1,69750
1991#10,2717#1,82343
1990#11,4096#1,78044
1989#1,67846
1988#2,36725
1987#11,3255#2,40023
1986#7,7498#1,76035
1985#2,22624
1984#1,65635
1983#1,27552
1982#9,2376#2,16624
1981#2,20423
1980#3,25613
1979#2,37920
1978#9,7505#2,27920
1977#9,6525#2,20221
1976#2,82614
1975#1,47836
1974#1,37039
1973#8,4235#2,12419
1972#1,36438
1971#1,41536
1970#7,9955#1,61528
1969#2,30814
1968#1,57425
1967#2,24213
1966#1,75719
1965#2,7809
1964#1,85019
1963#2,8589
1962#2,36412
1961#4,0655
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First appearance
1957

The first year at least five boys were named Devlin! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1957–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Devlin
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 23 spots since 2024 (#6,469#6,446)
  • 2,305 spots since 2020 (#4,141#6,446)
  • 4,193 spots since 2015 (#2,253#6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 2003 at #1,149 (131 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,824
  • Highest: 1 in 14,824 boys born in 2007 were named Devlin (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,149 in 2003, was only 1 in 15,079 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 36.1% of all boys named Devlin (1,172) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#3,993 (1957)#3,993
1960s125#1,574 (1968)#2,422
1970s271#1,364 (1972)#1,905
1980s300#1,275 (1983)#2,099
1990s670#1,271 (1998)#1,520
2000s1,172#1,149 (2003)#1,305
2010s585#1,697 (2010)#2,484
2020s119#3,912 (2021)#5,071

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Devlin in 1983

boys
#1,275
52 births · 1 in 34,472 boys

Top boys' names in 1983

  1. #1Michael68,004
  2. #2Christopher59,324
  3. #3Matthew50,209
  4. #4David39,201
  5. #5Joshua36,687
  6. #6James36,342
  7. #7Jason35,113
  8. #8Daniel34,748
  9. #9John33,154
  10. #10Robert32,745
  11. #1,275Devlin52
More about 1983

boys

1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 34,472 of them was named Devlin, which outranked 82.6% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Devlin
  1. #1,265Syed53
  2. #1,265Tylor53
  3. #1,265Vincente53
  4. #1,275Devlin52
  5. #1,275Adonis52
  6. #1,275Amar52
  7. #1,275Clement52
  8. #1,296Dayne51
  9. #1,296Dayton51
  10. #1,296Gus51

Tied with 20 names at #1,275; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. 2,260Remington#3,108#848
  2. 2,159Trumaine#3,108#949
  3. 1,157Akeem#1,774#617
  4. 738Jacoby#1,654#916
  5. 655Deven#1,622#967
Fallers
  1. 284Marcello#969#1,253
  2. 275Schuyler#845#1,120
  3. 273Jessy#917#1,190
  4. 258Kennith#981#1,239
  5. 220Jarrad#933#1,153

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1983