Dëvî
surname · Latin script
Dëvî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In India it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit देवी (devī́, “goddess, female deity”).
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.7K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dëvî itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #9 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 585 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Deb, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Devi in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and 1 more and Dev in NP Nepal, BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Sanskrit देवी (devī́, “goddess, female deity”).
Sources 5
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dëvî counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #116 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Dev | 64 |
| IN India | #2 | 84,232 | 1 in 16K | 84K | Devi | 238 |
| ID Indonesia | #289 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | #12 | Devi | 203 |
| MY Malaysia | #339 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 354 | Devi | 72 |
| NP Nepal | — | 7,418as Dev | 1 in 4.1K | 7.4K | Dev | 53 |
| KW Kuwait | #263 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Devi | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dëvî mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sanskrit देवी (devī́, “goddess, female deity”). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and A concise dictionary of first names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Dëvî have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Deb in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dëvî?
- In India, the national register counted 84,232 people named Dëvî, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Dëvî compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Dëvî is the 116th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Dëvî” — the 116th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.