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Drishti

#13,657 in 2025Girls' name

Sight

Drishti has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #13,657 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Drishti, 2025

1 in 553,000

Drishti over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Drishti: meaning, origin, and history

Sight

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Drishti means

Drishti means “sight”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Drishti is used in Hindi.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd̪ɾɪʂ.ʈiː/ for Drishti.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 girls were recorded with the name Drishti between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2014; its best national rank was #8,167 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,885 in 2020 to #13,657 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,660 in 2015 to #13,657 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Drishti?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,657
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Drishti sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drishti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Drishtis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Drishti was born before 2014 — so the typical Drishti is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
96
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.2% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Drishti rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+228
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,997
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2014 (14)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,167
2014

Spellings of Drishti

Drishti is not the most common spelling — Kristi is, with 95.9% against Drishti's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Drishti around the world

Where Drishti ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Drishti by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,657
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 228
Best rank ever
#8,167
2014
Peak year
2014
14 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Drishti

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Drishti

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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