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Bhakti

#15,309 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Bhakti has been given to 162 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #15,309 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Bhakti, 2025

1 in 663,000

Bhakti over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bhakti: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Bhakti means

Bhakti is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bhakti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 162 girls were recorded with the name Bhakti between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2009; its best national rank was #10,080 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,498 in 2020 to #15,309 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bhakti?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,309
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bhakti sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bhakti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bhaktis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bhakti was born before 2007 — so the typical Bhakti is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
162
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2000s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Bhakti rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+189
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2009 (11)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,080
2009

Spellings of Bhakti

Bhakti is not the most common spelling — Shanti is, with 92.1% against Bhakti's 7.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Bhakti around the world

Where Bhakti ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Bhakti by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,309
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 189
Best rank ever
#10,080
2009
Peak year
2009
11 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
162
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Bhakti

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BhavyaShaktiBhavikaBhavanaBhavnaBhaviniBhavaniYuktiBhargaviBhaviMuktiBhavishya

Sibling names for Bhakti

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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