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Deeksha

Girls' name

To consecrate, through दीक्षा

Deeksha has been given to 296 babies in the U.S. since 1998. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Deeksha, 2023

1 in 663,000

Deeksha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deeksha: meaning, origin, and history

To consecrate, through दीक्षा

Sanskrit

What Deeksha means

Deeksha belongs to the name family reached through Deeksha → दीक्षा. Its meaning is “to consecrate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Deeksha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Deeksha comes through Sanskrit दीक्षा.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include दीक्षा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 296 girls were recorded with the name Deeksha between 1998 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2012; its best national rank was #4,802 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Deeksha?

Deeksha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deeksha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deeksha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deekshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deeksha was born before 2012 — so the typical Deeksha is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
59.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
296
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 59.5% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Deeksha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (29)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,802
2014

Spellings of Deeksha

Deeksha is not the most common spelling — Denisha is, with 36.8% against Deeksha's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Deeksha is used

Across 1910–2025, Deeksha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 941,928 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Deeksha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deeksha around the world

Where Deeksha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2010–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Deeksha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,802
2014
Peak year
2012
29 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
296
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deeksha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DeetyaDeeshaJenishaDivishaDalishaDeepikaAreeshaDeeanneElayshaDeeyaDeericaAleyshaTvishaMokshaAlaishaParishaVeekshaDeeanaMeeshaRitishaHadashaDeemaPreeshaElaisha

Sibling names for Deeksha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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