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Deep

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Dip

Deep has been given to 352 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 2000, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Deep, 2015

1 in 463,000

Deep over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deep: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dip

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deep means

Deep is a alternate transcription of Dip.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deep is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dip.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 352 boys were recorded with the name Deep between 1988 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,005 in 2000.

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.

How common is Deep?

Deep had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
320,718 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deep sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 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 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deep. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deeps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deep was born before 2000 — so the typical Deep is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Deep 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (29)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,005
2000

Spellings of Deep

Deep is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 27.1% against Deep's 0.04%.

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 Deep is used

Across 1910–2025, Deep was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 444,376 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Deep has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deep around the world

Where Deep 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2012
    #2,182
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Deep by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,005
2000
Peak year
2000
29 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
352
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deep

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

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Sibling names for Deep

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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