Deepa
Deepa or Dipa is a Hindu name of Sanskrit origin. In India, it is a popular feminine given name, meaning "lamp" and "light".
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Punjabi
- Bengali
Meaning & Origin of Deepa
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Deepa or Dipa is a Hindu name of Sanskrit origin. In India, it is a popular feminine given name, meaning "lamp" and "light".
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Punjabi
- Bengali
- Malayalam
- Tamil
The Story of Deepa
Deepa first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1968, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1981: 27 births, good for #3,146 nationwide. About 39% of every Deepa on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Deepa last appeared in the published SSA data in 2014, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 480 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Deepa
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Names that sound like Deepa
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About the name Deepa
Deepa is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1968 and has accumulated 480 births in the dataset. Deepa's peak popularity came in 1981 when it ranked #3,146. Use the chart and map above to compare Deepa's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.