Devi
Devi means "goddess", and in Poland it's split down the middle: of the 46 people who carry it, exactly half are men and half women. Most Poles will never meet one.
Devi Pronunciation
What Devi means
Where Devi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Devi begins in Sanskrit, where devī is the feminine of deva, a god. The word means goddess. That same ancient root shows up in the Latin deus. It surfaces again in Lithuanian dievas, so Devi belongs to a wide Indo-European family of words for the divine.
In India, Devi names the great goddess of Hindu tradition, the divine feminine addressed as Mahadevi. Ordinary women carry it too, across many languages of the subcontinent. The meaning holds steady while the bearers change.
In Poland the name is uncommon, and the calendar of imieniny holds no day for it. Picture a class register in Kraków, one Devi seated among the Zuzannas. The name needs no translation to do its work. Its sense is the one it started with: goddess, or in Polish, bogini.
How many people are named Devi
1 in 980167 women in Poland is named Devi. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5606 among female names.
Devi as a middle name
Devi is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 90, a 34/66 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 704th, between Maksymiliana (91) and Dina (90).
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#702 Lydia91
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#703 Maksymiliana91
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#704 Devi90
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#705 Dina90
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#706 Dorothea90