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Preet

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Love, affection, fondness

Preet has been given to 236 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% boys, 37% girls all-time.

Babies named Preet, 2017

1 in 511,000

Preet over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Preet over time

In 2017, Preet went to 46% girls and 54% boys.

19922017

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Preet: meaning, origin, and history

Love, affection, fondness

Sanskrit

What Preet means

Preet means “love, affection, fondness”, associated with prīta.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रीत (prīta, “love, affection, fondness”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Preet (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Preet is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 boys were recorded with the name Preet between 1997 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,500 in 2000.

In the United States, 88 girls were recorded with the name Preet between 1992 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2011; its best national rank was #10,252 in 1995.

How common is Preet?

Preet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 264,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Preet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Preet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Preets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Preet was born before 2007 — so the typical Preet is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
56.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
148
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Preet 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (13)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,500
2000

Spellings of Preet

Preet is not the most common spelling — Brett is, with 36.8% against Preet's 0.03%.

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.

Where Preet is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Preet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Preet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Preet around the world

Where Preet 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
    2004–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Preet by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,500
2000
Peak year
2000
13 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,252
1995
Peak year
2011
10 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
88
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Preet

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

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Sibling names for Preet

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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