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Devaughn

#5,253 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Devaughn has been given to 2,570 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #5,253 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Devaughn, 2025

1 in 184,000

Devaughn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Devaughn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Devaughn means

Devaughn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Devaughn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,570 boys were recorded with the name Devaughn between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 1993; its best national rank was #924 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,455 in 2020 to #5,253 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,585 in 2015 to #5,253 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 Devaughn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,253
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Devaughn 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Devaughn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Devaughns were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,523
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1990s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (852).

Is Devaughn 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
−789
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−798
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−668
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.3%
Peak was 1993 (135)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#924
1993

Spellings of Devaughn

Devaughn is not the most common spelling — Vaughn is, with 77.6% against Devaughn's 9.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Devaughn is used

Across 1910–2025, Devaughn was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 131,851 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Devaughn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Devaughn around the world

Where Devaughn 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.

  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #1,715
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Devaughn

People whose public names include Devaughn, 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.

Devaughn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,253
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 798
Best rank ever
#924
1993
Peak year
1993
135 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,570
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Devaughn

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

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Names with a curve like Devaughn

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

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Sibling names for Devaughn

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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