Bhakti
given name · Latin script
Meaning: devotion to God
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Bhakti is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 413K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 450Kfew records
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 Bhakti 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vokti in 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)devotion to God
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bhakti 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 65 | Bhakti | 152 |
| US United States | 806 | 1 in 413K | 720 | Bhakti | 159 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | Vokti | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Bhakti | 26 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Bhakti | 7 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Bhakti | 3 |
| QA Qatar | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Bhakti | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bhakti is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kaw, devotion, attachment, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, loyalty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Hinduisma virziens (sanskr. "uzticīga mīlestība uz Dievu"), kas uzskata, ka vienīgais, kas nepieciešams, lai gūtu pestīšanu, ir bezgalīga mīlestība uz personisko Dievu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Garīgā treniņa sistēma, kuras pamatā ir pilnīga uzticība un pakļaušanās savai dievībai vai savam guru kā dievības pasaulīgajam iemiesojumam
as a wordTēzaurs.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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bhakti mean, and where does it come from?
- devotion to God Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bhakti a male or female name?
- Bhakti is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Bhakti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Bhakti in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bhakti.
- How common is the name Bhakti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 806 people named Bhakti in 2020, about 1 in 413 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bhaktiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bhakti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.