Devi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of Dev; referring especially to the wife of Shiva
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dejvʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Devi 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.
- 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 Devi 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 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)
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(measured from records)
Devi 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rudrama Devib. 125913th-century Indian queen
- Seeta Devib. 1912INIndian actress (1912-1983)
- Gayatri Devib. 1919INMaharani of Jaipur and Indian politician (1919–2009)
- Mahasweta Devib. 1926INIndian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (1926-2016)
- Anjali Devib. 1927INIndian actress, producer
- Shakuntala Devib. 1929INIndian writer and mental calculator (1929-2013)
- Girija Devib. 1929INIndian classical singer
- Ananda Devib. 1957MUMauritian writer
- Rabri Devib. 1959INIndian politician
- Bombayla Devi Laishramb. 1985INIndian archer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 84K | #210 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Devi mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Dev; referring especially to the wife of Shiva. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Devi?
- A machine transcription gives /dejvʲi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Devi 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 Devi?
- In India, the national register counted 84,232 people named Devi, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Devi compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Devi is the 116th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deviThe 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, “Devi” — the 116th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.