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Devyani

#13,641 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Devyani has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #13,641 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Devyani, 2025

1 in 553,000

Devyani over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Devyani: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Devyani means

Devyani is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Devyani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 girls were recorded with the name Devyani between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2002; its best national rank was #12,559 in 2002.

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 Devyani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,641
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Devyani 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Devyani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Devyanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Devyani was born before 2010 — so the typical Devyani is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
42
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Choose a decade

2000s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Devyani 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
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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
85.7%
Peak was 2002 (7)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,559
2002

Spellings of Devyani

Devyani is not the most common spelling — Devyn is, with 42.6% against Devyani's 0.19%.

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.

Devyani around the world

Where Devyani 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.

  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Devyani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,641
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,559
2002
Peak year
2002
7 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Devyani

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

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Sibling names for Devyani

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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