Pradeep
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pradeep is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘lantern’, ‘glory’.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 584◐
- INIndia1 in 718
- QAQatar1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.9K ●
- #556 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 277 ●
- 1 in 9.4K ◐
across 6 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.7M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pardeep in PK Pakistan, ES Spain, IT Italy and 1 more, Pradip in IN India, MY Malaysia, NP Nepal, ประทีป in TH Thailand and Prodip in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #45 | 4,529,629 | 1.6M rec. | — | 2.8K | Pradip | 277 |
| TH Thailand | #323 | 63,924 | 43K rec. | — | #348,354 | ประทีป | 95 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9,195 | 5.6K rec. | — | listed | Pradeep | 115 |
| AU Australia | — | 5,568 | 5.8K rec. | — | 1 | Pradeep | 124 |
| US United States | — | 3,447 | 55K rec. | 1 in 97K | 3.4K | Pradeep | 274 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,346 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Pradeep | 84 |
| BD Bangladesh | #457 | 3,248 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Prodip | 54 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #114 | 2,953 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Pradeep | 83 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,594 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Pradip | 33 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #16 | 2,450 | 9.1K rec. | — | — | Pradeep | 70 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #535 | 2,242 | 531 rec. | — | — | Pradeep | 34 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,388 | 106 rec. | — | — | Pardeep | 35 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi1.3M69%
- 282K15%
- English99K5%
- Telugu30K2%
- Assamese30K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 1,322,182 | 69% |
| 282,024 | 15% | |
| English | 99,268 | 5% |
| Telugu | 30,442 | 2% |
| Assamese | 30,434 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 25 |
| 2006 | 32 |
| 2007 | 33 |
| 2008 | 33 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 34 |
| 2011 | 38 |
| 2012 | 40 |
| 2013 | 44 |
| 2014 | 48 |
| 2015 | 43 |
| 2016 | 44 |
| 2017 | 53 |
| 2018 | 64 |
| 2019 | 68 |
| 2020 | 70 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 85K | #161 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 30K | #193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #5,070 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.8K | #2,433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 753 | #32,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 305 | #65,066 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 175 | #5,752 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 157 | #3,989 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 156 | #1,533 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 140 | #1,548 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 82 | #8,820 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 80 | #514 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pradeep?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Pradeep (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pradeep have the most bearers?
- Pradeep is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled pradip.
- How common is Pradeep compared with other names?
- In India, Pradeep is the 45th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- 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’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 45th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.