Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Devon
/DEV · on/
Meaning
“Tribal land”
From the English county of Devon, itself from the ancient Dumnonii Celtic tribe. Crossed into given-name use in the 1970s; androgynous and geographically rooted.
Nicknames
dev
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Peaked in the US in the 1990s; starting to feel like a product of that decade.
The cultural moment.
Top 200 in the US from the 1980s through the early 2000s; declining since.