Devika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: a little goddess
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dəvɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Devika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 68th most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 201K
- THThailand≈1 in 87Kas เทวิกา
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 Devika 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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เทวิกา in TH Thailand.
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)
Sanskrit: a little goddess
Sources 1
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Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Devika 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #539 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Devika | 39 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Devika | 67 |
| US United States | — | 1,657 | 1 in 201K | 1.7K | Devika | 215 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Devika | 21 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 87K | #216,307 | เทวิกา | 52 |
| GY Guyana | #68 | 667 | 1 in 1.1K | 667 | Devika | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #614 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Devika | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Devika | 8 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Devika is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft, Ver kleinerung 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)
- Devika Ranib. 1908INIndian actress (1908-1994)
- Devikab. 1943INIndian actress
- Devika Strookerb. 1963NLDutch actress (born 1963)
- Devika Parikhb. 1966USAmerican actress
- Åsa Coenraadsb. 1978SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Devika Bhagatb. 1979INIndian screenwriter
- Devika Palshikarb. 1979INcricketer
- Devika Bhiseb. 1995USAmerican actor
- Devika Vaidyab. 1997INcricketer
- Devika Sihagb. 2005INbadminton player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,687 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 667 | #124 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 21 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #161 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Devika mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: a little goddess Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Devika?
- A machine transcription gives /dəvɪkə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Devika a male or female name?
- Devika is a female 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.
- In which country does Devika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Devika in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled devika.
- Where is Devika most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Devika is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Sri Lanka holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Devika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,657 people named Devika in 2020, about 1 in 201 thousand residents.
- How common is Devika compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Devika is the 539th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/devikaThe 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, “Devika” — the 539th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.