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Hardeep

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Lamp, light

Hardeep has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1983. 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 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.

Babies named Hardeep, 2005

1 in 549,000

Hardeep over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Hardeep over time

In 2005, Hardeep went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Hardeep: meaning, origin, and history

Lamp, light

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hardeep means

Hardeep means “lamp, light”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hardeep is used in Indian (Sikh).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Hardeep between 1983 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,070 in 1997.

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Hardeep between 1990 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1990; its best national rank was #13,748 in 1990.

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 Hardeep?

Hardeep had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 549,000
7 of 3,844,258 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
380,664 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hardeep 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 2005 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 380,664 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hardeep. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hardeeps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hardeep was born before 1997 — so the typical Hardeep is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
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1990s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Hardeep 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (12)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,070
1997

Spellings of Hardeep

Hardeep is not the most common spelling — Sandeep is, with 35.2% against Hardeep's 3.1%.

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 Hardeep is used

Across 1910–2025, Hardeep was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,050,436 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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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. Hardeep has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hardeep around the world

Where Hardeep 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–1989
    #335
    in 1989
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #2,057
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1983–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hardeep 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
#5,070
1997
Peak year
1997
12 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,748
1990
Peak year
1990
5 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hardeep

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

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Sibling names for Hardeep

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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