Given name
Devendra
“chief of the gods”
Devendra is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “chief of the gods.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit देवेन्द्र (“chief of the gods”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Devendra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 26 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 989 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Devendra’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Devendra
- Devendra BanhartAmerican folk singer (born 1981)
- Devendra Fadnavis18th Chief Minister of Maharashtraborn 1970
- Devendra Prasad YadavIndian politicianborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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