Dílìp
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dílìp is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 53rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Of uncertain etymology, probably Sanskrit: ‘protector of Delhi’, the name of various legendary kings.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 144K
- NPNepal≈1 in 823
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #608 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 823 (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dilip in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 4 more and Deelip in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of uncertain etymology, probably Sanskrit: ‘protector of Delhi’, the name of various legendary kings.
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dílìp counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 823 | — | Dilip | 55 |
| BD Bangladesh | #499 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Dilip | 47 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Dilip | 9 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #413 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Dilip | 39 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Dilip | 38 |
| US United States | — | 2,318 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Dilip | 286 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Deelip | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Deelip | 5 |
| IN India | #53 | — | — | 1.1K | Dilip | 253 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dílìp mean, and where does it come from?
- Of uncertain etymology, probably Sanskrit: ‘protector of Delhi’, the name of various legendary kings. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- Is Dílìp a male or female name?
- Dílìp is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dílìp have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Dílìp in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dilip.
- How common is the name Dílìp?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,318 people named Dílìp in 2020, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
- How common is Dílìp compared with other names?
- In India, Dílìp is the 53rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dílìp” — the 53rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.