Devi
Devi was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,139 among girls’ names; 1,016 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Devi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Devi is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “goddess, female deity” (देवी).
Borrowed from Sanskrit देवी (devī́, “goddess, female deity”).
/ˈdeɪvi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Devi?
#3,139 among girls’ names, 2025
Devi rose from #6,526 in 2015 to #3,139 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 31.7 per million.
51 babies in 2023, the peak
Devi peaked in 2023, when 51 girls were given it, #3,197 among girls’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,139 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,242 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,197 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,719 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,871 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,791 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,841 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,833 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,608 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,694 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,526 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,158 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,488 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,403 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,957 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,023 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,258 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,844 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,388 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,367 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,906 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,251 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,672 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,149 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,403 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,723 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,614 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,679 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,250 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,727 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,249 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,297 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,141 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,793 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,562 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,213 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,908 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,596 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,525 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,862 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,680 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,433 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,479 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,026 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,933 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,379 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,895 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,830 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,475 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,414 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,655 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,944 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,841 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,591 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,660 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,562 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,143 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,055 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,608 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,015 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,171 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,608 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,077 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,464 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,622 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,862 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,574 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,184 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,848 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,760 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Devi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devi, and how old are they?
An estimated 985 Americans named Devi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 7 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,751 people named Devi (2,269 women and girls, 482 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 755 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,002 babies since 1880, Devi is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 51 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Devi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Devi and names like it
- Compare Devi and DevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDevi peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devi since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Devi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Devi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Devi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.