MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sandeep mean?
The Sanskrit dīp light-root family underlies Sandeep, with saṃ contributing the sense of lighting up. Its Sanskrit formation uses the prefix sam with the root dīp, to blaze or shine.
Pronunciation
IAST: sandīpa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संदीप
Letter-by-letter: sandīpa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੰਦੀਪ
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Sandip
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sandeep in Indian usage
689,587 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 13,536 records (2%).
- Recorded as male: 676,051 records (98%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 432 |
| 1940s | 287 |
| 1950s | 1,037 |
| 1960s | 11,003 |
| 1970s | 59,025 |
| 1980s | 290,210 |
| 1990s | 327,406 |
| Other decades | 187 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 264,264 |
| Haryana | 121,218 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 73,697 |
| Bihar | 54,502 |
| Rajasthan | 53,218 |
| Delhi | 32,963 |
| Jharkhand | 26,118 |
| Uttarakhand | 21,113 |
| Kerala | 12,999 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 10,060 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 8,087 |
| Chandigarh | 3,065 |
| Goa | 2,750 |
| Maharashtra | 1,504 |
| Assam | 1,295 |
| Tripura | 774 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 338 |
| Sikkim | 302 |
| Meghalaya | 286 |
| Odisha | 263 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 183 |
| Karnataka | 141 |
| Manipur | 110 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 104 |
| Other states | 233 |
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, dīpta, p. 481,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Sandip ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Sandeep ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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