Deo

#7,796 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Dev

Deo has been given to 278 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #7,796 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Deo, 2025

1 in 332,000

Deo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deo: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dev

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deo means

Deo is a alternate transcription of Dev.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Deo → Dev → देव → देव. The family’s meaning is “god, the celestial one”, recorded in Sanskrit with the source elements deywós.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dev.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 278 boys were recorded with the name Deo between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,374 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,933 in 2020 to #7,796 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,003 in 2015 to #7,796 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Deo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 171,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,796; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Deo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deo was born before 1997 — so the typical Deo is around 28 today.

Median birth year: 1997; About 28 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 50.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 156; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Deo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3,137; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,207; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.67×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 76.9%; Peak was 1924 (13)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,374; 1924

Where Deo is used

Across 1910–2025, Deo was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,313,832 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Deo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deo around the world

Where Deo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2016–2018
#4,749
in 2018
Canada
2023–2023
#2,747
in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Deo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,796
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3,137
Best rank ever: #2,374; 1924
Peak year: 1924; 13 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 278
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Deo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Deo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Rosina Linnie Marjory Margarette Concetta Marcelle Billy Jannie

For a brother

Alvis Jewel Rollin Bertram Antone Seymour Cletus Junius

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