Entry № 4850 · Sanskrit origin

Jayadevi Jayadevi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAH-yah-DEH-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Victory-goddess"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "victory-goddess".

Jayadevi is from the Sanskrit Jayadevī.

Victory-goddess — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

जयदेवी
Transliteration
Jayadevī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɑː.jɑːˈdɛ.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jayadevi stands.

Jayadevi 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.

Jayadevis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Jaya-Vijaya-Ajita-Aparajita 4 forms of Durga / Jayadeva 12th c. Gita Govinda / Ashtapadi 24 songs / Radha-Krishna
Sanskrit victory-goddess + jaya victory + devī goddess + Jaya-Vijaya-Ajitā-Aparājitā four-forms Durga + Jayadeva 12th c. Sanskrit-poet Gīta Govinda 12-cantos 24-songs Aṣṭapadī + Odia-poet Kenduli Odisha + Vaishnava-Bhakti Chaitanya Mahaprabhu + Meera + Surdas + Aṣṭapadī
Jayadeva Gita Govinda

Names connected to Jayadevi.

The number behind Jayadevi.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jayadevi reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.