Sandeep
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sandʲiːp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sandeep is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Hindi संदीप (sandīp, “enlightened”).
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.2K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 9.6K
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 Sandeep 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)
- #438 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named Sandip, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sandwip in BD Bangladesh and Sandip 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)
Hindi संदीप (sandīp, “enlightened”)
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sandeep 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 | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sandip | 61 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Sandeep | 37 |
| US United States | — | 8,581 | 1 in 39K | 7.2K | Sandeep | 386 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #73 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Sandeep | 115 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Sandwip | 37 |
| BH Bahrain | #49 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Sandeep | 22 |
| KW Kuwait | #261 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Sandeep | 21 |
| QA Qatar | #182 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Sandeep | 29 |
| IN India | #23 | — | — | 951 | Sandeep | 336 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sandeep 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 English, A male given name from Hindi used in India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Sandeep Patilb. 1956INIndian cricketer
- Sandeep Kulkarnib. 1964INIndian actor
- Sandeep Dasb. 1971INIndian musician
- Sandeep Khareb. 1973INPoet , singer
- Sandeep Parikhb. 1980USAmerican writer, director, actor and producer
- Sandeep Kumarb. 1986INIndian racewalker
- Sandeep Singhb. 1986INIndian field hockey player
- Sandeep ChowtaGHIndian composer
- Sandeep NathINIndian lyricist
- Sandeep SawantINIndian filmographer
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 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 43K | #134 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.2K | #2,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #2,731 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 4 | — |
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 Sandeep mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindi संदीप (sandīp, “enlightened”) Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sandeep?
- A machine transcription gives /sandʲiːp/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sandeep a male or female name?
- Sandeep 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 Sandeep?
- In the etymology graph, Sandip is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sandeep have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Sandip in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sandeep?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,581 people named Sandeep in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Sandeep compared with other names?
- In India, Sandeep is the 23rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sandeep?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandeepThe 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, “Sandeep” — the 23rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.