Given name
Sri
“rank, power, royal majesty”
Sri is used as a given name. One Sanskrit interpretation is “rank, power, royal majesty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Sanskrit interpretation is “rank, power, royal majesty.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit sri, meaning “light, beauty, prosperity”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 109
- 5 boys · 104 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,467 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.
Sri’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Sri shares an earlier linguistic root with SERI. Sri has a related form in Shree. In English usage, Sri has a related form in Shri.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sri has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Sanskrit roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Sri
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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