Preeti

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Priti

Preeti has been given to 360 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 18 recorded.

Babies named Preeti, 2009

1 in 382,000

Preeti over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Preeti: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Priti

Sanskrit

What Preeti means

Preeti is a alternate transcription of Priti.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Preeti is used in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Preeti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Priti.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 360 girls were recorded with the name Preeti between 1972 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,680 in 1980.

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.

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How common is Preeti?

Preeti 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 382,000; 10 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only: 1 in 184,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 264,805 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Preeti 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 264,805 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Preeti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Preetis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Preeti was born before 1990 — so the typical Preeti is around 35 today.

Median birth year: 1990; About 35 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 65.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 360; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Preeti 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2000 (18)
Years since peak: 25; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,680; 1980

Where Preeti is used

Across 1910–2025, Preeti was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

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

Preeti around the world

Where Preeti 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
1996–2018
#4,684
in 2018
South Australia
1995–2010
#521
in 2010

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.

Preeti 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: —
Best rank ever: #4,680; 1980
Peak year: 2000; 18 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 2009
All-time count: 360
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Preeti

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

Presli Prestyn Preston Preslyn Pressley Preesha Presly Prescott Preslie Pretty Preslynn Preethi Prerna Preeya Preslee Preslei Preslea Precilla Neeti Preet Prezley Preciosa Prerana Preshus

Sibling names for Preeti

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

For a sister

Madisen Nada Sydnie Sydni Savana Brigid Jackeline Gabriel

For a brother

Donavon Kevon Keshawn Syed Koby Shamar Johnson Lars

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