Given name & surname · also Punjabi
Deep
Deep is a surname from Punjabi, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Deep comes from Punjabi, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deep through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 352
- 352 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 29 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,322 as a first name in 2020; 685 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Deep’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Deep
- Deep RoyKenyan-British actor (born 1957)born 1949
- Deep Narayan SinghIndian politician (1894-1977)
- Deep SenguptaIndian chess playerborn 1988
- Deep DasguptaIndian cricket playerborn 1977
- Deep JoshiIndian activistborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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