Given name & surname
Deepak
“one who carries the little lamp”
Deepak is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “one who carries the little lamp.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who carries the little lamp.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deepak through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 553
- 553 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 26 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 10 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,891 as a first name in 2020; 630 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.
Deepak’s family of names
Deepak has a related form in Dipak. Deepak has a related form in Dipak. Deepak has a related form in Deapak.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Deepak
- Deepak ChopraIndian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speakerborn 1946
- Deepak TijoriIndian film actor and directorborn 1961
- Deepak DobriyalIndian actorborn 1975
- Deepak PuniaIndian freestyle wrestlerborn 1999
- Deepak ChaharIndian Cricket playerborn 1972
- Deepak MondalIndian footballerborn 1979
- Deepak HoodaIndian cricketerborn 1995
- Deepak BistaNepali Taekwondo international player, coach and referee.born 1976
- Deepak DevIndian composerborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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