Entry № 2437 · Sanskrit origin

Devaki Devaki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEH-vah-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Divine; mother of Krishna"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "divine; mother of krishna".

Devaki (देवकी) is the Sanskrit name meaning "divine." She is the mother of the god Krishna — imprisoned by her brother King Kamsa, who killed her six firstborn children before Krishna was secretly born in the dungeon.

Devaki is widely used across India.

Divine. Mother of Krishna.

The name in its native script.

देवकी
Transliteration
Devakī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɛ.və.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Devaki stands.

Devaki does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Devakis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Devaki
Krishna's mother in the Bhagavata Purana.
Hindu scripture

Names connected to Devaki.

The number behind Devaki.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Devaki reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.