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Deepika

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Dipika

Deepika has been given to 254 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1997, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Deepika, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deepika: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dipika

Sanskrit

What Deepika means

Deepika is a alternate transcription of Dipika.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deepika is used in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.

Origin, language, and formation

Deepika is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dipika.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 254 girls were recorded with the name Deepika between 1979 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,945 in 1997.

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 Deepika?

Deepika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deepika 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deepika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deepikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deepika was born before 2001 — so the typical Deepika is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
254
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Deepika 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 1997 (16)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,945
1997

Spellings of Deepika

Deepika is not the most common spelling — Despina is, with 51.3% against Deepika's 8.6%.

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 Deepika is used

Across 1910–2025, Deepika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,296,326 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 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. Deepika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deepika around the world

Where Deepika 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
    1997–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2017–2019
    #6,678
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1992–2010
    #2,833
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1970–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Deepika 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
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Best rank ever
#5,945
1997
Peak year
1997
16 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
254
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deepika

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

DeerikaDeetyaNainikaHanvikaKritikaDeekshaSanvikaNishikaAmerikaParnikaDeeyaDeeannePranikaSuleikaDeericaAnshikaVarnikaAadvikaJennikaMishikaSrinikaTanvikaAnaikaKrithika

Sibling names for Deepika

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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