Given name · also Hindi
Deepa
Deepa is a feminine given name from Hindi, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Original Hindiदीपा
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Deepa comes from Hindi, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Hindi दीपा, from Sanskrit दीपा; its root is Sanskrit दीप्.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deepa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 480
- 0 boys · 480 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 27 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 girls is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,338 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Deepa’s family of names
In English usage, Deepa has a related form in DIPA. In English usage, Deepa has a related form in DIPA. In English usage, Deepa was borrowed from the Hindi form दीपा.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Deepa
- Deepa MehtaIndo Canadian film director and screenwriterborn 1950
- Deepa SahiIndian actress and producerborn 1962
- Deepa MalikIndian swimmer, biker and athleteborn 1970
- Deepa DasmunsiIndian politicianborn 1960
- Deepa Marathecricketerborn 1972
- Deepa Shree NiraulaNepalese actressborn 1975
- Deepa BhasthiIndian writer and translatorborn 1983
- Deepa KhandakarBangladeshi actressborn 1978
- J. DeepaIndian politicianborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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