Given name

Smriti

Smriti is a feminine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Smriti comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit स्मृति (smṛ́ti).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Smriti through the years

Babies since 1880
227
0 boys · 227 girls
Most popular year
2010
18 babies
2025
7
#13,000 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
05101520002025Highest share 20104.4
Smriti in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1996–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,000 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 944 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.

Smriti’s family of names

Smriti may belong to the same name family as SMRITTI. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Smriti’s family in the name graph

SmritiSmritySmritee

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Smriti

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Smriti, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

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Shrishti is a feminine given name from Sanskrit.

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>99% girls

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Riddhi

“a prosperous woman”

23RareRising

>99% girls

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Ragini

Ragini is a feminine given name from Sanskrit.

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

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Sahitya

Sahitya is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Smriti’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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