Neutral
Devon
Devon is a gender-neutral name meaning "English county name", drawing on English roots. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The registry counts around 90,093 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
EnglishEnglish county name
CelticFrom the Celtic "Dumnonii" – "deep valley dwellers"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
86
1920s
262
1930s
356
1940s
439
1950s
876
1960s
1,802
1970s
5,647
1980s
14,449
1990s
36,224
2000s
24,072
2010s
5,880
Peaked in the 1990s · 90,093 total U.S. births since 1900