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Deepa

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Dipa

Deepa has been given to 480 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1981, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Deepa, 2014

1 in 618,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deepa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dipa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deepa means

Deepa is a alternate transcription of Dipa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deepa is used in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Malayalam and Tamil.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hindi दीपा (dīpā), from Sanskrit दीपा (dīpā).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Deepa (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Deepa is used in English.

Deepa comes through Hindi दीपा and Sanskrit दीपा.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dipa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 480 girls were recorded with the name Deepa between 1968 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1981; its best national rank was #3,160 in 1981.

How common is Deepa?

Deepa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deepa 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 2014 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 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deepa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deepas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deepa was born before 1985 — so the typical Deepa is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
480
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Deepa 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 1981 (27)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,160
1981

Spellings of Deepa

Deepa is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 64.1% against Deepa's 0.06%.

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 Deepa is used

Across 1910–2025, Deepa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,147,373 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Deepa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deepa around the world

Where Deepa 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
    1996–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • France
    1985–1985
    #3,297
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Deepa 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
#3,160
1981
Peak year
1981
27 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
480
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deepa

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

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Sibling names for Deepa

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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