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Devon
Pronounced /ˈdɛv.ən/
Rank in 2024
#3,731
Born in 2024
41
Peak year
1991 · #233
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:236 in 2024 (#959)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 41 girls were named Devon, about 1 in every 39,346.
- It peaked in 1991 with 1,205 babies, ranked #233.
- It first shows up in the records in 1926.
- 20,258 girls have been named Devon since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Devon per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 68 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 762 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,656 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,741 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,300 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 726 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English Defenas, which meant both "Devonians" and "Devon," exemplifying the common Anglo-Saxon practice of naming a place after the people who inhabit it.
- A unisex given name
- A male given name
- A male given name transferred from the place name
- A male given name, variant of Devin
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈdɛv.ən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Devon, CC BY-SA 4.0.