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How popular is the name Dev?
Births per year, rank history and how many Devs are alive today.
Dev (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 934th in 2025 with 33 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2010, when 49 babies were given the name, the 653rd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1316 in 2019 before climbing back to the 934th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Dev is also a common short form of Devon, so many people called Dev are registered under the longer name.
The Dev you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Devs born in England and Wales are between 9 and 21, and there are at least 860 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Dev - on average, only one in every 353 such rooms contains a Dev.
How many babies are named Dev each year?
Where does Dev rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Dev most popular?
Dev peaked in 2010, when 49 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Dev?
At least 860 people named Dev born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Dev?
Most living Devs are between 9 and 21; the most common age is about 16.
Is Dev becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.