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Devi

#3,139 in 2025Girls' name

Goddess, female deity

Devi has been given to 1,016 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #3,139 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Devi, 2025

1 in 65,000

Devi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Devi: meaning, origin, and history

Goddess, female deity

Sanskrit

What Devi means

Devi means “goddess, female deity”, associated with devī́.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit देवी (devī́, “goddess, female deity”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Devi is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Devi comes through Sanskrit देवी.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Devi is pronounced /ˈdeɪvi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,016 girls were recorded with the name Devi between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,139 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,791 in 2020 to #3,139 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,526 in 2015 to #3,139 in 2025.

How common is Devi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 31,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,139
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Devi 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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Devi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Devis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Devi was born before 2006 — so the typical Devi is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,016
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Choose a decade

2020s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (246).

Is Devi 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
+103
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,652
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,387
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.68×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2023 (51)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,139
2025

Spellings of Devi

Devi is not the most common spelling — Eva is, with 34.1% against Devi's 0.12%.

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 Devi is used

Across 1910–2025, Devi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 323,810 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Devi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Devi around the world

Where Devi 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
    2002–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1978–2022
    #7,338
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1972–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Devi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,139
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,652
Best rank ever
#3,139
2025
Peak year
2023
51 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,016
Count in 2025
51

Names similar to Devi

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

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Sibling names for Devi

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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