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Devendra

Boys' name

Chief of the gods

Devendra has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Devendra, 2018

1 in 440,000

Devendra over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Devendra: meaning, origin, and history

Chief of the gods

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Devendra means

Devendra means “chief of the gods”, associated with devendra.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sanskrit देवेन्द्र (devendra, “chief of the gods”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Devendra (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Devendra is used in English.

Devendra comes through Sanskrit देवेन्द्र.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Devendra between 1991 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,516 in 1991.

How common is Devendra?

Devendra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 440,000
8 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 227,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
304,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Devendra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 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 304,713 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Devendra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Devendras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Devendra was born before 2017 — so the typical Devendra is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
26
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Devendra 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (8)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,516
1991

Spellings of Devendra

Devendra is not the most common spelling — Deandra is, with 97.1% against Devendra's 2.9%.

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.

Where Devendra is used

Across 1910–2025, Devendra was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Devendra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Devendra around the world

Where Devendra 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.

  • France
    2010–2010
    #5,638
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Devendra by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,516
1991
Peak year
2018
8 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Devendra

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

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Sibling names for Devendra

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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