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
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 131 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,247since 1957
Devlin over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #6,446 | 13 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,469 | 13 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #4,610 | 22 |
| 2022 | — | #4,850 | 20 | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | — | #4,141 | 24 | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,748 | 44 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | — | #2,689 | 45 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,000 | 71 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #2,139 | 62 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,799 | 82 |
| 2011 | — | #1,835 | 77 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,697 | 90 |
| 2009 | — | #1,443 | 116 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,504 | 108 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #1,255 | 140 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #1,294 | 128 |
| 2005 | — | #1,289 | 119 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,179 | 132 |
| 2003 | — | #1,149 | 131 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,305 | 102 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,357 | 94 |
| 2000 | — | #1,271 | 102 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,383 | 85 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #1,271 | 95 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,284 | 89 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,421 | 73 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #1,405 | 71 |
| 1994 | — | #1,753 | 50 | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,780 | 44 |
| 1989 | — | #1,678 | 46 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | — | #2,226 | 24 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,656 | 35 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,275 | 52 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #2,166 | 24 |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | — | #2,826 | 14 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,478 | 36 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,370 | 39 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | — | #1,364 | 38 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,415 | 36 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #1,615 | 28 |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,574 | 25 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,757 | 19 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,850 | 19 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2003 at #1,149 (131 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 36.1% of all boys named Devlin (1,172) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 125 | #1,574 (1968) | #2,422 |
| 1970s | 271 | #1,364 (1972) | #1,905 |
| 1980s | 300 | #1,275 (1983) | #2,099 |
| 1990s | 670 | #1,271 (1998) | #1,520 |
| 2000s | 1,172 | #1,149 (2003) | #1,305 |
| 2010s | 585 | #1,697 (2010) | #2,484 |
| 2020s | 119 | #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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 176,695 of them was named Devlin, which outranked 48.3% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,016Zhanae11
- #8,016Zoi11
- #8,016Zuleika11
- #8,584Devlin10
- #8,584Aarion10
- #8,584Aasha10
- #8,584Abagael10
- #9,260Aalliyah9
- #9,260Aastha9
- #9,260Abbe9
Tied with 675 names at #8,584; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 20,120 of them was named Devlin, which outranked 88.8% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,261Marcelino96
- #1,261Mickey96
- #1,261Yusuf96
- #1,271Devlin95
- #1,271Ammon95
- #1,271Eleazar95
- #1,271Everardo95
- #1,280Christofer94
- #1,280Donta94
- #1,280Maxim94
Tied with 8 names at #1,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.