Deven
given name · Latin script
Meaning: for God
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deven is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 33K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 175K
- QAQatar≈1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 365 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
10,015 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
for God
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deven counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,015 | 1 in 33K | 8.8K | Deven | 365 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Deven | 39 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Deven | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 3 | Deven | 100 |
| CA Canada | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 1 | Deven | 85 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Deven | 20 |
| QA Qatar | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Deven | 5 |
10,015 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Deven is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lad, third-person plural present indicative of dever
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds (Germany), plural of Deev
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Deven Vermab. 1937INIndian actor
- Deven Sharmab. 1956USAmerican businessman
- Deven Govindasamib. 1963INIndian weightlifter
- Deven Bhojanib. 1969INIndian actor
- Deven Mayb. 1971USAmerican actor
- Deven Greenb. 1975CACanadian-American comedian
- Deven Michaelsb. 1981USAmerican professional wrestler
- Deven Mitchellb. 1984USAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
- Deven Christian Mackb. 1988CACanadian voice actor
- Deven Marrerob. 1990USAmerican baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Deven mean, and where does it come from?
- for God Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- What are other forms of the name Deven?
- In the etymology graph, Duane, Dwayne and DeWayne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Deven?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛvən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Deven a male or female name?
- Deven is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Deven have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Deven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deven.
- Where is Deven most common?
- Deven is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Deven?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,015 people named Deven in 2020, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/devenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Deven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.