Given name
Preet
“love, affection, fondness”
Preet is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “love, affection, fondness.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit प्रीत (“love, affection, fondness”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Preet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 236
- 148 boys · 88 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 747 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Preet’s family of names
In English usage, Preet has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form प्रीत.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Preet
- Preet BhararaAmerican lawyer and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New Yorkborn 1968
- Preet Kaur GillBritish politician and Labour MP (born 1972)
- Preet ChandiBritish army officer who became the first woman of colour to complete a solo expedition to reach the South Poleborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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