Dëv
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dëv is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In India it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘god’, often referring in particular to Indra; also a term of address for kings, equivalent to ‘Your Majesty’. Dëv is also written দেব in Bengali, דבי in Hebrew and เดฟ in Thai.
- NPNepal1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 36K
- DEGermany≈1 in 430K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dëv itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #9 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 585 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named Deb, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dëv in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Hebrew and 6 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Devi in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and 1 more, Dev in NP Nepal, BD Bangladesh and Debbie in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sanskrit: ‘god’, often referring in particular to Indra; also a term of address for kings, equivalent to ‘Your Majesty’.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dëv is found
(measured from records)Dëv counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #116 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Dev | 64 |
| ID Indonesia | #289 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | register #12 | Devi | 203 |
| IN India | #2 | 84,232as Devi | 1 in 16K | 84K | Devi | 238 |
| NP Nepal | — | 7,418 | 1 in 4.1K | 7.4K | Dev | 53 |
| US United States | — | 6,252as Dew | 1 in 53K | 144K | Debbie | 585 |
| MY Malaysia | #339 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 354 | Devi | 72 |
| KW Kuwait | #263 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Devi | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dëv mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘god’, often referring in particular to Indra; also a term of address for kings, equivalent to ‘Your Majesty’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- Is Dëv a male or female name?
- Dëv is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dëv?
- Mondonomo estimates about 128 thousand people named Deb in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, India, Nepal and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dëv most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dëv is densest in Nepal — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dëv?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 7,418 people named Dëv in 2021, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Dëv compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Dëv is the 116th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%ABvThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dëv” — the 116th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.