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Dipa

Girls' name

From Hindi दीपा; literal meaning unconfirmed

Dipa has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1983, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Dipa, 1988

1 in 616,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dipa: meaning, origin, and history

From Hindi दीपा; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dipa means

Dipa is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Dipa is used in English.

Dipa comes through Hindi दीपा and Sanskrit दीपा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Dipa between 1980 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1983; its best national rank was #8,267 in 1983.

How common is Dipa?

Dipa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,773 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dipa 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 1988 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 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dipa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dipas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dipa was born before 1983 — so the typical Dipa is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Dipa 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 1983 (7)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,267
1983

Spellings of Dipa

Dipa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 24.8% against Dipa's <0.01%.

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.

Dipa around the world

Where Dipa 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.

  • France
    1988–1995
    #3,689
    in 1995

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Dipa 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
#8,267
1983
Peak year
1983
7 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dipa

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

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Sibling names for Dipa

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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