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Dev

#1,427 in 2025Boys' name

God, the celestial one, through देव

Dev has been given to 3,146 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #1,427 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Dev, 2025

1 in 26,300

Dev over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dev: meaning, origin, and history

God, the celestial one, through देव

Hindi

What Dev means

Dev belongs to the name family reached through Dev → देव → देव. Its meaning is “god, the celestial one”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dev is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Dev comes through Hindi देव and Indonesian god.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Devdas and देव.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,146 boys were recorded with the name Dev between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 145 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,235 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,638 in 2020 to #1,427 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,541 in 2015 to #1,427 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dev?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,300
126 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,427
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dev 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dev. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Devs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dev was born before 2012 — so the typical Dev is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,146
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (1,188).

Is Dev 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
−29
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+211
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+114
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.9%
Peak was 2009 (145)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,235
2009

Where Dev is used

Across 2016–2025, Dev was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 12,445 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

230 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,333
  2. 2California1 in 9,091
  3. 3Illinois1 in 10,000
  4. 4New York1 in 11,111
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 12,500
  7. 7Georgia1 in 14,286
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 14,286

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.

Dev around the world

Where Dev 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
    1996–2025
    #934
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2021–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1977–2025
    #2,905
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #585
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dev

People whose public names include Dev, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dev in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dev. Linked forms have their own page here.

DavDeverDevinDevonDew

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dev by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,427
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 211
Best rank ever
#1,235
2009
Peak year
2009
145 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,146
Count in 2025
126

Names similar to Dev

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

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Names with a curve like Dev

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dev, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EwanOskarMikahKiranCianCanonPiersonZakariaMicaiahZephaniahJaelHadi

Sibling names for Dev

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

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