MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Deepa mean?
A lamp is dīpa in Sanskrit, from dīp, to shine; the feminine name Deepa has final ā. A lamp is used in Indian worship as an offering of light.
Pronunciation
IAST: dīpā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दीपा
Letter-by-letter: dīpā
Conventional spelling
Tamil
தீபா
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Deepa in Indian usage
238,501 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 228,137 records (95.7%).
- Recorded as male: 10,364 records (4.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,031 |
| 1940s | 2,470 |
| 1950s | 5,362 |
| 1960s | 13,604 |
| 1970s | 42,023 |
| 1980s | 94,616 |
| 1990s | 78,999 |
| Other decades | 396 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 50,522 |
| Uttarakhand | 35,702 |
| Kerala | 30,318 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 27,827 |
| Rajasthan | 17,853 |
| Bihar | 15,812 |
| Delhi | 13,080 |
| Karnataka | 10,072 |
| Haryana | 7,435 |
| Odisha | 5,542 |
| Jharkhand | 5,519 |
| Assam | 3,753 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,952 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,560 |
| Punjab | 2,263 |
| Goa | 2,105 |
| Tripura | 1,765 |
| Puducherry | 763 |
| Chandigarh | 484 |
| Maharashtra | 427 |
| Sikkim | 423 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 394 |
| Meghalaya | 394 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 207 |
| Manipur | 132 |
| Other states | 197 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, dīpa, p. 481,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Deepa ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: दीप ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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