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Devaney

Gender
Girl
Say it
deh-VAY-nee
Origin
Irish

Devaney is a girls' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Devaney come from?

Irish: Irish surname

Is Devaney a girl's or a boy's name?

Devaney is a girls' name.

How popular is Devaney in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1991, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Devaney in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 11 in 19912024
Devaney in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20245#15,288
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20195#15,532
20180–
20177#12,709
20160–
20156#14,477
20140–
20135#16,542
20127#13,477
201111#9,719
20106#14,953
20096#15,236
20085#17,498
20070–
20065#17,163
20055#16,455
20046#14,172
20036#13,837
20020–
20015#15,345
200010#9,156
19990–
19980–
19978#9,797
19967#10,562
19956#11,778
199411#7,598
19939#8,712
19927#10,471
199111#7,423
19909#8,495
198910#7,443

Nicknames for Devaney

Names like Devaney

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Devaney: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/devaney, updated 20 October 2026.