Entry № 6218 · Sanskrit origin

Mahadevi Mahadevi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-hah-DEH-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Great Devi / supreme"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "great devi / supreme".

Mahadevi is from the Sanskrit Mahādevī.

Great Devi / supreme — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Mahadevi
Transliteration
Mahādevī
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑː.hɑːˈdɛ.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mahadevi stands.

Mahadevi 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.

Mahadevis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Mahadevi.

The number behind Mahadevi.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahadevi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.