How rare is the name Deepa?

4,338 people in the United States have the first name Deepa, about 1 in 69,625. It ranks #4,345 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

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#4,345

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,338
About
1 in 69,625
This common or more
83.9%
Who bears it

Of the 4,338 people named Deepa, 97.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 1% as White. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Deepa peaked in 1981, when 27 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19682014
Peak year
1981
Births that year
27
In 2014
6 ▼78%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 480 babies have been given the name since 1968. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Deepa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #6,664. The largest share of babies named Deepa, 55.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#17,2535
1970s#7,771111
1980s#6,664186
1990s#10,957129
2000s#25,29943
2010s#44,5536
Generation X 1965–8028.1%
Millennials 1981–9655.8%
Generation Z 1997–1214.8%
2013 and later1.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Deepa

#4,342 Ridge · 4,343#4,344 Ayman · 4,341#4,346 Ariyah · 4,337#4,346 Elder · 4,337

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Deepa, most common first.

#10,186 Deep · 1,322#33,663 Deeba · 245

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