# Devante (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/devante/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,364 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,307 / 57 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 255, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 21 | 4,730 |
| 1993 | 11 | 7,646 |
| 1994 | 11 | 7,755 |
| 1995 | 6 | 12,179 |
| 1996 | 8 | 9,831 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 72 | 1,935 |
| 2012 | 77 | 1,885 |
| 2013 | 75 | 1,882 |
| 2014 | 79 | 1,859 |
| 2015 | 69 | 2,059 |
| 2016 | 79 | 1,880 |
| 2017 | 76 | 1,900 |
| 2018 | 100 | 1,627 |
| 2019 | 65 | 2,173 |
| 2020 | 57 | 2,353 |
| 2021 | 74 | 2,003 |
| 2022 | 53 | 2,570 |
| 2023 | 57 | 2,398 |
| 2024 | 50 | 2,642 |
| 2025 | 57 | 2,401 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 15 | 1,132 |
| 2004 | 15 | 1,222 |
| 2005 | 11 | 1,617 |
| 2006 | 10 | 1,744 |
| 2007 | 9 | 2,023 |
| 2008 | 9 | 2,097 |
| 2009 | 9 | 2,126 |
| 2010 | 7 | 2,629 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Devante

- Devante Smith-Pelly, Canadian ice hockey player
- DeVante Parker, American football player
- Devante Cole, English professional footballer (born 1995)
- Devante Parker, German footballer
- D. J. Wilson, American basketball player (born 1996)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.