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Preethi

Girls' name

Form of Priti

Preethi has been given to 188 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 2002, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Preethi, 2009

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Preethi: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Priti

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Preethi means

Preethi is a form of Priti.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Preethi is used in Kannada and Tamil.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Preethi → Priti. The family’s meaning is “pleasure, joy, love”, recorded in the naming reference for Priti.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Priti.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 188 girls were recorded with the name Preethi between 1978 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2002; its best national rank was #5,841 in 2002.

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 Preethi?

Preethi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 478,000
8 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,006 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Preethi 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 2009 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 331,006 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Preethi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Preethis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Preethi was born before 2000 — so the typical Preethi is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
188
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Choose a decade

2000s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Preethi 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 2002 (20)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,841
2002

Where Preethi is used

Across 1910–2025, Preethi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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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. Preethi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Preethi around the world

Where Preethi 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.

  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Preethi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,841
2002
Peak year
2002
20 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
188
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Preethi

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

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Sibling names for Preethi

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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