Given name & surname · also Sanskrit
Pradeep
“one who is surrounded by light”
Pradeep is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “one who is surrounded by light.”
Original Hindiप्रदीप
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “one who is surrounded by light.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit pradipa, meaning “light, lantern”.
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
Pradeep through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 63 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 8 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 6 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,474 as a first name in 2020; 753 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.
Pradeep’s family of names
Pradeep has a feminine form in Pradeepta. Pradeep has a related form in Pradip. Pradeep has a related form in Pradeap.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pradeep
- Pradeep SarkarIndian film director1955–2023
- Pradeep RawatIndian actor1952–2026
- Pradeep Kumar Sinha31st Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of Indiaborn 1955
- Pradeep Kumar GyawaliNepalese politicianborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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