Dipak
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘little lamp’ or ‘like a lamp’; an epithet of Kama, the god of love
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɪpæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dipak is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 17th most common given name.
- NPNepal≈1 in 448(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.1Kas Deepak
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.1Kas Deepak
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dipak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #358 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 448 (inferred from the name graph)
≈68,000 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 Deepak in IN India, US United States, AE United Arab Emirates and 6 more and Dipok in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Sanskrit: ‘little lamp’ or ‘like a lamp’; an epithet of Kama, the god of love.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dipak 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 | — | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 9 | Deepak | 87 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Deepak | 40 |
| BD Bangladesh | #389 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Dipok | 50 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #64 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Deepak | 113 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Deepak | 40 |
| US United States | — | 5,891as Deepak | 1 in 56K | 5.8K | Deepak | 367 |
| QA Qatar | #141 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Deepak | 34 |
| KW Kuwait | #247 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Deepak | 27 |
| BH Bahrain | #90 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Deepak | 27 |
| IN India | #17 | — | — | 4.8K | Deepak | 347 |
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: The Indian name database provides a list of popular Indian surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency,; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dipak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft,
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Deepak Lalb. 1940GBIndian-born British economist
- Deepak Choprab. 1946INIndian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker
- Deepak Parasharb. 1952INIndian actor
- Deepak Shirkeb. 1957INIndian actor
- Dipak C. Jainb. 1957THAmerican Jain
- Deepak Tijorib. 1961INIndian film actor and director
- Deepak Vinayakb. 1972INIndian-Australian public figure from Melbourne, Victoria
- Deepak Dobriyalb. 1975INIndian actor
- Deepak Rauniyarb. 1978NPNepalese film director
- Deepak SareenINIndian director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dipak mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘little lamp’ or ‘like a lamp’; an epithet of Kama, the god of love. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Dipak?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪpæk/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Dipak a male or female name?
- Dipak 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.
- What are other forms of the name Dipak?
- In the etymology graph, Deepak and Dipaka are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dipak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Dipak in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deepak.
- How common is the name Dipak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,891 people named Deepak in 2020, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
- How common is Dipak compared with other names?
- In India, Dipak is the 17th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dipak?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dipakThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Dipak” — the 17th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.