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Priti

Girls' name

Pleasure, joy, love

Priti has been given to 265 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 1980, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Priti, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Priti: meaning, origin, and history

Pleasure, joy, love

Sanskrit

What Priti means

Priti means “pleasure, joy, love”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Priti is used in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

Origin, language, and formation

Priti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 265 girls were recorded with the name Priti between 1972 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,689 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Priti?

Priti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Priti 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Priti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pritis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Priti was born before 1982 — so the typical Priti is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
265
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Priti 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (22)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,689
1980

Spellings of Priti

Priti is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 66.0% against Priti's 0.06%.

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 Priti is used

Across 1910–2025, Priti was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,126,156 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Priti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Priti around the world

Where Priti 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
    1997–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Priti 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
#3,689
1980
Peak year
1980
22 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
265
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Priti

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

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Sibling names for Priti

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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