Deepa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Deepa

The Social Security Administration has registered 480 babies named Deepa between 1968 and 2014, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Deepa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 27 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deepa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Deepa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Deepa in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deepa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 480 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.