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Shreya

#2,772 in 2025Girls' name

Superior, better

Shreya has been given to 5,037 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #2,772 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 314 recorded.

Babies named Shreya, 2025

1 in 53,500

Shreya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shreya: meaning, origin, and history

Superior, better

Sanskrit

What Shreya means

Shreya means “superior, better”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shreya is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,037 girls were recorded with the name Shreya between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 314 in 2003; its best national rank was #786 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,031 in 2020 to #2,772 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,398 in 2015 to #2,772 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shreya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,772
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shreya 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shreya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shreyas were born

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

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,037
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (2,380).

Is Shreya 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
−220
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−741
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,374
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.7%
Peak was 2003 (314)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#786
2003

Spellings of Shreya

Shreya is not the most common spelling — Serena is, with 27.8% against Shreya's 3.0%.

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 Shreya is used

Across 2016–2025, Shreya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 15,256 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 6,667
  2. 2California1 in 9,091
  3. 3New York1 in 14,286
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Washington1 in 14,286
  6. 6Illinois1 in 16,667
  7. 7Georgia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000

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.

Shreya around the world

Where Shreya 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
    1996–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2020
    #397
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2009–2013
    #540
    in 2013
  • France
    2006–2024
    #6,069
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shreya

People whose public names include Shreya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shreya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,772
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 741
Best rank ever
#786
2003
Peak year
2003
314 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,037
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Shreya

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

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Names with a curve like Shreya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shreya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JailynIyannaIyanaMakenaJaylenNyaRyleyCitlaliRileighHayleighYamiletMackenna

Sibling names for Shreya

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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