Devon is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
Few children have been named Devon in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 15 out of 100,000 children are currently called Devon. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Devon at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Devon is number *** on the list of most common first names.
The name Devon is a variant of Devin, originally a surname with two different origins. It can be the anglicized form of Irish Ó Damháin meaning ‘descendant of Damhán’, or a nickname for someone, who acted divinely. The word goes back to the Latin ‘divinus’.
Devon had ... its most popular period in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a particularly popular initial letter for first names. That’s because 6.3% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.
With five letters, the name Devon is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all first names that begin with the letter D, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Devon and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Devon, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Devon
Devon
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Devon sounds like this:
