Deepak
From Sanskrit dīpaka, "lamp": the small clay light set in Indian doorways. In Poland it stays a visitor, carried by fewer than 300 men and given to no newborns last year, a name most Poles have never met.
Deepak Pronunciation
What Deepak means
Where Deepak comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Deepak comes from Sanskrit दीपक, dīpaka, meaning "lamp." It grows from the older word dīpa, the small clay lamp lit in doorways and temples across India. In Polish the sense is lampa, światło. The meaning is plain: light.
The same root dīpa sits inside dīpāvali, "a row of lamps," which is where the festival Diwali takes its name. A child called Deepak holds one such lamp rather than the whole glowing row. The author Deepak Chopra and the cricketer Deepak Chahar both carry it today, mostly among Hindi and other North Indian speakers.
On a Polish class register the name would look like a visitor, its long vowel and hard k standing slightly apart from Jakub or Szymon. A teacher reading it aloud gives light a new sound. Whatever language surrounds it, dīpaka keeps its first job. It names a lamp.
How many people are named Deepak
1 in 75965 men in Poland is named Deepak. 281 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1812 among male names.
Deepak as a middle name
Deepak is a first name for 281 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1324th, between Dastin (37) and Duong (37).
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#1322 Daniele37
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#1323 Dastin37
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#1324 Deepak37
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#1325 Duong37
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#1326 Ganesh37