Pradeep
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘lantern’, ‘glory’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɹəˈdip/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pradeep is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Sri Lanka it is the 16th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 448(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.9K
- USUnited States1 in 96K
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 Pradeep 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #446 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 448 (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 named Prodip, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ประทีป in TH Thailand, Prodip in BD Bangladesh and Pradip in NP Nepal.
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: ‘light’, ‘lantern’, ‘glory’. APPENDIX: INDIAN
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pradeep 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #219 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Prodip | 58 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #16 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | — | Pradeep | 75 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 651 | 3 | Pradip | 70 |
| TH Thailand | #319 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | #348,354 | ประทีป | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Pradeep | 29 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #76 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Pradeep | 89 |
| US United States | — | 3,474 | 1 in 96K | 3.4K | Pradeep | 313 |
| BH Bahrain | #52 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Pradeep | 20 |
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: 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pradeep Vasant Naikb. 1949INChief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force, 2009-2011
- Pradeep Uppoorb. 1950INIndian producer
- Pradeep Kumar Rawatb. 1950Indian diplomat
- Pradeep Rawatb. 1952INIndian actor
- Pradeep Sarkarb. 1955INIndian film director
- Pradeep Kumar Sinhab. 1955IN31st Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of India
- Pradeep Kumarb. 1955INIndian civil servant
- Pradeep Gandheb. 1955INbadminton player
- Pradeep Khoslab. 1957INengineering researcher; Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
- Pradeep Kumar Divakarb. 1973INIndian botanist, lichenologist, evolutionary biologist and taxnomist
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 39 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #5,070 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 27 | #5,070 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Pradeep come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘lantern’, ‘glory’. APPENDIX: INDIAN Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Pradeep?
- In the etymology graph, Pradip is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pradeep?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹəˈdip/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Pradeep a male or female name?
- Pradeep 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 does the name Pradeep mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘lantern’, ‘glory’.
- In which country does Pradeep have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Prodip in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pradeep?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,474 people named Pradeep in 2020, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
- How common is Pradeep compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Pradeep is the 219th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pradeep?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pradeepThe 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, “Pradeep” — the 219th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.