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Devonta

#4,744 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Devonta has been given to 3,187 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #4,744 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 320 recorded.

Babies named Devonta, 2025

1 in 158,000

Devonta over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Devonta: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Devonta means

Devonta is a given name.

The naming story behind Devonta

Wikidata records Devonta as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q28403645, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,151 boys were recorded with the name Devonta between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 320 in 1992; its best national rank was #568 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,149 in 2020 to #4,744 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,168 in 2015 to #4,744 in 2025.

In the United States, 36 girls were recorded with the name Devonta between 1992 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1993; its best national rank was #7,642 in 1993.

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.

How common is Devonta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,744
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Devonta 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Devonta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Devontas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Devonta was born before 1996 — so the typical Devonta is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
61.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (1,933).

Is Devonta 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
+541
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,595
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,576
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.6%
Peak was 1992 (320)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#568
1992

Spellings of Devonta

Devonta is not the most common spelling — Devon is, with 52.9% against Devonta's 2.3%.

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 Devonta is used

Across 1910–2025, Devonta was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 63,028 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 33,333

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

Devonta around the world

Where Devonta 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
    2001–2001
    #2,587
    in 2001

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

Notable people named Devonta

People whose public names include Devonta, 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.

Devonta in other languages

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

DevonteDevontae

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

Devonta by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,744
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,595
Best rank ever
#568
1992
Peak year
1992
320 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,151
Count in 2025
21

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,642
1993
Peak year
1993
11 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Devonta

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

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Names with a curve like Devonta

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

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Sibling names for Devonta

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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