Vasudeva

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Gustav in SE Sweden, DE Germany, US United States and 18 more, Vasudev in IN India, AE United Arab Emirates, Basudev in MY Malaysia, NP Nepal and วาสุเทพ in TH Thailand.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Vasudeva is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name17K records spelled Vasudeva3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Vāsudeva, Vāsudēva

• English given name8.1K records spelled Vasudeva4 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German

  Also written Vāsudeva

• Russian given name617 records spelled Vasudeva5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Russia

  Also written Васудева, Vāsudeva

• French given name150 records spelled Vasudeva2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, France, United States

  Also written Vāsudeva

44 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●

Vasudeva is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Vasudeva, husband of Devaki, and Rohini, son of Shurasena, and the father of Krishna, and Balarama

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, hindu mitoloģijā - Krišnas tēvs un Kuntī, pāndavu mātes brālis, eposa "Mahābhārata" varonis

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 100 years between 1910–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Neeru VasudevaINresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 208 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vasudeva?

We estimate roughly 105 thousand people bear Vasudeva (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Vasudeva have the most bearers?

Vasudeva is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled vasudev.

Where is Vasudeva most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vasudeva is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 122 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Vasudeva compared with other names?

In India, Vasudeva is the 466th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Vasudeva a male or female name?

Vasudeva is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.