Sandeep
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sandeep is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hindi संदीप (sandīp, “enlightened”).
- INIndia1 in 717◐
- BDBangladesh1 in 2.2K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.1K ●
- #568 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 352 ●
- 1 in 43K ◐
across 6 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sandip in NP Nepal, JP Japan and Sandwip 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●
Hindi संदीप (sandīp, “enlightened”)
Sources 1
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 | #44 | 4,536,222 | 1.5M rec. | — | 951 | Sandeep | 310 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,177 | 5.1K rec. | — | 3 | Sandeep | 151 |
| US United States | — | 7,192 | 57K rec. | 1 in 46K | 7.2K | Sandeep | 352 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,938 | 3.7K rec. | — | 10 | Sandeep | 127 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #110 | 2,999 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Sandeep | 107 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | 2,408 | 590 rec. | — | — | Sandwip | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,959 | 947 rec. | — | — | Sandeep | 44 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #816 | 1,513 | 314 rec. | — | — | Sandeep | 39 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,405 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Sandeep | 37 |
| FR France | — | 1,404 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Sandeep | 107 |
| SG Singapore | #517 | 985 | 935 rec. | — | — | Sandeep | 82 |
| QA Qatar | #209 | 700 | 632 rec. | — | — | Sandeep | 28 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi3.2M85%
- English140K4%
- 133K4%
- Telugu43K1%
- Assamese43K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 3,201,595 | 85% |
| English | 139,923 | 4% |
| 132,625 | 4% | |
| Telugu | 42,661 | 1% |
| Assamese | 42,657 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1895 | 2 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1899 | 22 |
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1913 | 1 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1915 | 2 |
| 1916 | 4 |
| 1917 | 3 |
| 1918 | 6 |
| 1919 | 18 |
| 1920 | 32 |
| 1921 | 17 |
| 1922 | 24 |
| 1923 | 147 |
| 1924 | 62 |
| 1925 | 43 |
| 1926 | 3 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 7 |
| 1930 | 4 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1932 | 4 |
| 1933 | 8 |
| 1934 | 4 |
| 1935 | 6 |
| 1936 | 9 |
| 1937 | 11 |
| 1938 | 9 |
| 1939 | 16 |
| 1940 | 13 |
| 1941 | 16 |
| 1942 | 18 |
| 1943 | 11 |
| 1944 | 29 |
| 1945 | 17 |
| 1946 | 18 |
| 1947 | 30 |
| 1948 | 27 |
| 1949 | 35 |
| 1950 | 39 |
| 1951 | 28 |
| 1952 | 49 |
| 1953 | 52 |
| 1954 | 72 |
| 1955 | 58 |
| 1956 | 71 |
| 1957 | 76 |
| 1958 | 111 |
| 1959 | 181 |
| 1960 | 150 |
| 1961 | 235 |
| 1962 | 319 |
| 1963 | 403 |
| 1964 | 611 |
| 1965 | 732 |
| 1966 | 894 |
| 1967 | 1,091 |
| 1968 | 1,674 |
| 1969 | 1,577 |
| 1970 | 1,934 |
| 1971 | 2,131 |
| 1972 | 2,861 |
| 1973 | 3,222 |
| 1974 | 3,697 |
| 1975 | 4,278 |
| 1976 | 6,048 |
| 1977 | 5,210 |
| 1978 | 5,888 |
| 1979 | 7,425 |
| 1980 | 8,546 |
| 1981 | 11,684 |
| 1982 | 16,239 |
| 1983 | 20,696 |
| 1984 | 23,590 |
| 1985 | 24,260 |
| 1986 | 24,607 |
| 1987 | 29,738 |
| 1988 | 31,067 |
| 1989 | 31,148 |
| 1990 | 32,591 |
| 1991 | 33,319 |
| 1992 | 37,406 |
| 1993 | 39,281 |
| 1994 | 33,274 |
| 1995 | 31,664 |
| 1996 | 17,372 |
| 1997 | 15,964 |
| 1998 | 10,668 |
| 1999 | 804 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 420 |
| 2009 | 3 |
| 2010 | 234 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 44 |
| 2014 | 2,011 |
| 2015 | 700 |
| 2016 | 3 |
| 2017 | 4 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 106 years between 1895–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 48 sources across 26 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 375 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sandeep?
- We estimate roughly 8.1 thousand people bear Sandeep (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sandeep have the most bearers?
- Sandeep is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sandeep.
- How common is Sandeep compared with other names?
- In India, Sandeep is the 44th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Sandeep mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hindi संदीप (sandīp, “enlightened”)
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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, “Sandeep” — the 44th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.