Devadas as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Devadas

What is the meaning of the name Devadas ?

The baby name Devadas is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈdeɪ.və.dɑːs/ or /ˈdɛ.və.dɑːs/ (DAY-vuh-dahs or DEH-vuh-dahs).

Devadas is Sanskrit in Origin.

Devadas is an Indian masculine given name from Sanskrit deva “god, deity” and dāsa “servant, devotee,” yielding the sense “servant of God” or “God’s devotee.” The compound appears in classical Sanskrit as Devadāsa and occurs in medieval inscriptions and bhakti-era records, reflecting the widespread custom of devotional theophoric names. It has been used across Hindu communities in North and South India and in the diaspora.

Regional and orthographic variants include Devadāsa/Devadasa (Sanskritized), Devdas or Devdās (Hindi, Marathi, Bengali), Debdas (Bengali), Devidas (Marathi/Konkani), Devadasu (Telugu), and Devadasan (Malayalam/Tamil). Short forms such as Deva and Das are common. The name is distinct from devadasi, a historical term for temple women. Literary and cinematic familiarity with the variant Devdas, popularized by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1917 Bengali novel and its films, has also kept the name recognizable.