Devon Boy Name

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The name Devon is of English origin, and is derived from the name of a county in England. The table below indicates the number of times the name Devon has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Devon**
Use of the Name Devon for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
54,760	54,760	50,481	28,177	12,846	4,786	2,288

The table below indicates the number of times the name Devon has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Devon first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1955, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Devon**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1955	1000	56
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960	954	63
1961	937	66
1962	839	82
1963	762	101
1964	721	114
1965	726	105
1966	675	121
1967	614	149
1968	596	162
1969	606	167
1970	570	200
1971	599	191
1972	569	198
1973	477	271
1974	416	352
1975	450	312
1976	447	304
1977	371	442	542	329
1978	378	415	308	759
1979	394	408	317	755
1980	393	434	334	721
1981	424	383	405	550
1982	375	460	435	500
1983	276	748	383	579
1984	255	851	419	508
1985	239	973	503	403
1986	225	1,053	490	436
1987	209	1,195	507	417
1988	190	1,435	504	442
1989	178	1,719	394	627
1990	151	2,057	278	995
1991	132	2,470	233	1,203
1992	123	2,769	301	920
1993	127	2,725	298	915
1994	117	3,032	371	701
1995	119	3,114	313	887
1996	127	2,899	404	650
1997	119	3,184	437	583
1998	119	3,140	504	503
1999	125	2,994	562	446
2000	133	2,965	658	371
2001	147	2,717	800	294
2002	160	2,378	834	278
2003	160	2,498	761	324
2004	175	2,288	843	287
Totals:		54,760		16,383

During the last 125 years, parents have used Devon as a boy's name about 76% of the time and less frequently (about 23% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Devon appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 46 times during the last 125 years.

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