Devi

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Devi is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In India it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Dev; referring especially to the wife of Shiva.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 835◐
  • CACanada1 in 922
  • AUAustralia1 in 1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈101K ●

across 11 countries

#15 ●

of 21M surnames

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
532 ●

48M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.1K ◐

Nepal

Spellings & scripts●

DeviLatin · Hindi●54M records
দেবBengali · Bangla●13K records
דביHebrew · Hebrew●4K records
ดูวาThai · Thai●268 records
ДэвиCyrillic · Russian●234 records
데비Hangul · Korean●2 records
දේවSinhala · Sinhala●1 records
ದೕವKannada · Kannada●0 records
దవTelugu · Telugu●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Debbie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 19 more, Dev in FR France, NP Nepal, Deb in BD Bangladesh and דבי in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Feminine form of Dev; referring especially to the wife of Shiva.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Devi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—198,690181K rec.—4Debbie254
AU Australia—113,61495K rec.—88Debbie214
CA Canada—90,18489K rec.—4Debbie203
IN India#284,23245M rec.1 in 16K84KDevi224
BD Bangladesh#26174,2607.3K rec.—listedDeb56
ID Indonesia#30127,39915K rec.—#12Devi192
PH Philippines—17,02716K rec.——Debbie103
IT Italy—15,49116K rec.—120Debbie52
MY Malaysia#42510,94433K rec.—354Devi65
DE Germany—10,72911K rec.—1Debbie96
NZ New Zealand—10,2198.6K rec.—13Debbie119
SG Singapore#3199,98811K rec.——Debbie90

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi54M88%
  • Bangla2.3M4%
  • Indonesian1.2M2%
  • English929K2%
  • Khmer638K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi54,063,14388%
Bangla2,308,3154%
Indonesian1,220,8322%
English929,4582%
Khmer638,4171%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Devi is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Nepali surname645K records spelled Devi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nepal, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written Devī

  • a separate surname392K records spelled Devi8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Also written Devī, Dēvi, Dévi, Dēvī, Dėvi

  • Portuguese surname21K records spelled Devi6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Dévi, Ďêvî, Dêvi, Deví, Devī

  • a separate surname4.5K records spelled Devi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Dëvi, Devį

  • Georgian surname3.4K records spelled Devi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Georgia, Malaysia

    Also written Დევი

  • Albanian surname2.4K records spelled Devi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Albania

    Also written Dēvi, Dèvì, Dévi

  • Ukrainian surname1.6K records spelled Devi12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Деви, Деві, Dewi, Devy, Дэві

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Devi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • (Hin) name for Sakti (goddess of power and destruction)

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • In English, Sanskrit/Tibetan/Sherpa; female deity

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Sanskrit; name of the goddess Devi

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Sanskrit: the divine one; goddess

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K1900192019401960198020002.7K · 1966

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Devi in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18993
19061
19082
19101
19122
19132
19149
19154
19164
19177
19189
191914
192036
192129
192239
192345
192462
192551
192686
1927102
1928111
1929174
1930130
1931205
1932306
1933256
1934390
1935302
1936401
1937433
1938459
1939610
1940613
1941727
1942868
1943836
19441,058
1945929
19461,173
19471,256
19481,134
19491,457
19501,285
19511,505
19521,716
19531,487
19541,747
19551,480
19561,931
19572,022
19581,822
19592,379
19601,879
19612,262
19622,454
19632,202
19642,526
19652,209
19662,674
19672,545
19682,132
19692,509
19702,267
19712,464
19722,397
19732,392
19741,953
19752,051
19762,222
19771,839
19781,800
19791,844
19801,790
19811,975
19822,123
19832,345
19841,962
19851,993
19861,938
19871,944
19881,927
19891,836
19901,856
19911,909
19921,867
19931,878
19941,714
19951,378
1996894
1997906
1998766
199919
20001
20022
200712
2008200
20098
2010177
201129
201269
201359
2014203
2015101
20161
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 105 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Rudrama Devi, b. 1259Seeta Devi, b. 1912Gayatri Devi, b. 1919Mahasweta Devi, b. 1926Anjali Devi, b. 1927Shakuntala Devi, b. 1929Girija Devi, b. 1929Ananda Devi, b. 1957Rabri Devi, b. 1959Bombayla Devi Laishram, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 76 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Devi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—84K#210
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.3K#5,987
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.2K#13,411
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,068
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000799#28,194
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020482#5,987
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025390#254
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—354—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—351#10,613
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—351#10,607
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022330—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—308#17,822

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 523 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Devi?
We estimate roughly 101 thousand people bear Devi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Devi have the most bearers?
Devi is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled debbie.
How common is Devi compared with other names?
In India, Devi is the 2nd most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Devi mean?
Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Dev; referring especially to the wife of Shiva.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Devi” — the 2nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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