Entry № 2452 · Indonesian origin

Dewi Dewi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEH-wee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indonesian
Meaning
"Goddess; David"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Indonesian)

A name that means "goddess; david".

Dewi has parallel origins. In Indonesian and Malay it means "goddess" — derived from the Sanskrit devī. In Welsh it is the masculine form of David, named after Saint Dewi Sant (patron of Wales).

Dewi Sukarno (born 1940), the Japanese-Indonesian wife of President Sukarno, is a notable bearer.

Goddess. The Indonesian-Sanskrit feminine.

The name in its native script.

Dewi
Transliteration
Dewi
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɛ.wi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dewi stands.

Dewi 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.

Dewis before her.

Real people
Dewi Sukarno
Indonesian First Lady.
born 1940
In fiction
Dewi
Common in Indonesian fiction.

Names connected to Dewi.

The number behind Dewi.

5

The Seeker

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