Devin is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Devin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Devin ranks 281. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Devin. In the entire USA, approximately 167,114 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Devin. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Devin is either derived from an Irish or an English surname. The Irish surnames are Ó Damháin and Ó Dubháin, meaning ‘descendant of Damhán’ and ‘descendant of Dubhán’, respectively. The English surname originates from a nickname for someone, who acted divinely, from the Latin word ‘divinus’.
The name Devin became... popular in the US as a male name in the 1980s and as a female name in the late 1990s.
This was a real surprise! Devin is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #52 in the year 1995, when 6,933 parents chose this name for their newborn son. This made Devin much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this boys' name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Devin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Devin ranked 368 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn boys a total of 837 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Devin will remain a universally popular name.
The name Devin may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Devin is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 526 men in Nevada is called Devin. In total, that’s 1,075 people who feel addressed when the name Devin is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #132 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Devin as the answer a total of 167,114 times. This places Devin at #211 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Devin as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Devin 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.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Devin 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 Devin, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
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Violin
Igloo
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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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. Devin sounds like this:
