Given name & surname
Sridhar
“bearing or possessing the goddess Lakshmi”
Sridhar is used as a given name and a surname. One Sanskrit interpretation is “bearing or possessing the goddess Lakshmi.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Sanskrit interpretation is “bearing or possessing the goddess Lakshmi.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sridhar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 13 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 8 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 boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,221 as a first name in 2020; 1,645 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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