Given name
Deepti
“brightness, light, splendour”
Deepti is a feminine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “brightness, light, splendour.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit दीप्ति (“brightness, light, splendour”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deepti through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 155
- 0 boys · 155 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 12 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 7 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,838 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.
Deepti’s family of names
In English usage, Deepti has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form दीप्ति.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
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 Deepti
- Deepti NavalIndian-born American actressborn 1952
- Deepti BhatnagarIndian actressborn 1967
- Deepti Omchery BhallaIndian dancer
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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