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Mandeep

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Mind, intellect, spirit + lamp, light

Mandeep has been given to 411 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1988, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% boys, 39% girls all-time.

Babies named Mandeep, 2006

1 in 565,000

Mandeep 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mandeep over time

In 2006, Mandeep went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19762006

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.

Mandeep: meaning, origin, and history

Mind, intellect, spirit + lamp, light

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mandeep means

Mandeep means “mind, intellect, spirit + lamp, light”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mandeep is used in Indian (Sikh).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 boys were recorded with the name Mandeep between 1976 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1988; its best national rank was #2,814 in 1988.

In the United States, 160 girls were recorded with the name Mandeep between 1980 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1991; its best national rank was #6,457 in 1991.

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 Mandeep?

Mandeep had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 565,000
7 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 294,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,745 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mandeep 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 2006 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 391,745 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mandeep. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mandeeps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mandeep was born before 1991 — so the typical Mandeep is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
251
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Choose a decade

1990s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Mandeep 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 1988 (20)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,814
1988

Spellings of Mandeep

Mandeep is not the most common spelling — Sandeep is, with 49.1% against Mandeep's 15.3%.

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 Mandeep is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Mandeep was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 252,648 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Mandeep has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Mandeep is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Mandeep was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 452,685 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. Mandeep has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mandeep around the world

Where Mandeep 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
    1996–2007
    #2,741
    in 2007
  • France
    1993–1993
    #3,081
    in 1993
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #1,659
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #424
    in 1978

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.

Mandeep 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
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Best rank ever
#2,814
1988
Peak year
1988
20 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,457
1991
Peak year
1991
14 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
160
Count in 2025
Under 5

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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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