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Deepak

Boys' name

A lamp, light, through दीपक

Deepak has been given to 553 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1980, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Deepak, 2013

1 in 365,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deepak: meaning, origin, and history

A lamp, light, through दीपक

Hindi

What Deepak means

Deepak belongs to the name family reached through Deepak → दीपक → दीपक. Its meaning is “a lamp, light”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hindi दीपक (dīpak), meaning a part of a flame, or someone who enlightens everyone's heart with hope.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Deepak is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Deepak comes through Hindi दीपक.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include दीपक.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Deepak is pronounced /ˈdiːpʌk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 553 boys were recorded with the name Deepak between 1965 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1980; its best national rank was #2,070 in 1980.

How common is Deepak?

Deepak had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 365,000
10 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 189,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
252,718 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deepak 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 2013 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 252,718 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deepak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deepaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deepak was born before 1988 — so the typical Deepak is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
553
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (149).

Is Deepak 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 1980 (26)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,070
1980

Spellings of Deepak

Deepak is not the most common spelling — Deegan is, with 86.2% against Deepak's 13.8%.

  • Deegan86.2%3,453
  • Deepak13.8%553

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 Deepak is used

Across 1910–2025, Deepak was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 439,379 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Deepak around the world

Where Deepak 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
    1996–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2005
    #1,586
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1998–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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.

Deepak 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
#2,070
1980
Peak year
1980
26 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
553
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deepak

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

DeejayDeeganDeenDeericDeepDeevonDeekenDeemsDeerickDeelanDeekanDeeDeeshawnDeedrickDeenaDeepeshDeeandreDipak

Sibling names for Deepak

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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