Given name & surname
Deva
“a divine being”
Deva is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “a divine being.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “a divine being.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deva through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 986
- 22 boys · 964 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +31%
- Rising
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 923 as a first name in 2020; 284 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Deva’s family of names
Deva has a related form in Devi. Deva has a related form in Daeva.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Deva
- Deva CasselFrench-Italian model (born 2004)
- Deva Raya IIVijayanagara emperor
- Dev Shumsher Jung Bahadur RanaPrime Minister of Nepal (1862–1914)
- Deva PremalGerman singerborn 1970
- Phraya SongsuradetThai military officer (1891–1944)
- Deva KattaIndian film director
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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