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Deepti

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Dipti

Deepti has been given to 155 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 12 recorded.

Babies named Deepti, 2017

1 in 511,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deepti: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dipti

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deepti means

Deepti is a alternate transcription of Dipti.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deepti is used in Hindi, Marathi and Kannada.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dipti.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 155 girls were recorded with the name Deepti between 1981 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2000; its best national rank was #6,434 in 1981.

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 Deepti?

Deepti 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 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deepti 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deepti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deeptis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deepti was born before 1999 — so the typical Deepti is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
155
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Deepti 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (12)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,434
1981

Spellings of Deepti

Deepti is not the most common spelling — Deetta is, with 57.6% against Deepti's 7.6%.

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.

Deepti around the world

Where Deepti 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
    2007–2007
    #4,294
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #716
    in 1994

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.

Deepti 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
#6,434
1981
Peak year
2000
12 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
155
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deepti

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

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Sibling names for Deepti

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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