Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Dever isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dever through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 130 as a first name in 2020; 4,915 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dever’s family of names
Dever may belong to the same name family as DEVERR. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dever
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Dever, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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