Given name & surname · also Hindi
Dipa
Dipa is a feminine given name from Hindi, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Original Hindiदीपा
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dipa 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 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dipa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 0 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 7 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 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 422 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.
Dipa’s family of names
In English usage, Dipa has a related form in DEEPA. In English usage, Dipa has a related form in DEEPA. In English usage, Dipa was borrowed from the Hindi form दीपा.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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.
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