# Devendra (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/devendra/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “chief of the gods” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 26 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit देवेन्द्र (devendra, “chief of the gods”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | 7,523 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,410 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,106 |
| 2018 | 8 | 9,039 |

## People named Devendra

- Devendra Banhart, American folk singer (born 1981)
- Devendra Fadnavis, 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.