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Shruti

#12,983 in 2025Girls' name

To hear, through श्रुति

Shruti has been given to 1,095 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #12,983 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Shruti, 2025

1 in 474,000

Shruti over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shruti: meaning, origin, and history

To hear, through श्रुति

Sanskrit

What Shruti means

Shruti belongs to the name family reached through Shruti → श्रुति. Its meaning is “to hear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shruti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Shruti comes through Sanskrit श्रुति.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include श्रुति.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,095 girls were recorded with the name Shruti between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,523 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,282 in 2020 to #12,983 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,807 in 2015 to #12,983 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 Shruti?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,983
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shruti 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shruti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shrutis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shruti was born before 2003 — so the typical Shruti is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,095
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Shruti 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
+299
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,176
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.1%
Peak was 2002 (63)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,523
2002

Spellings of Shruti

Shruti is not the most common spelling — Shanti is, with 48.9% against Shruti's 28.4%.

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 Shruti is used

Across 1910–2025, Shruti was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 259,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Shruti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shruti around the world

Where Shruti 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    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.

Shruti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,983
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 299
Best rank ever
#2,523
2002
Peak year
2002
63 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,095
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Shruti

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

ShriyaShreeShreeyaShreyaShravyaShraddhaShristiShrondaShruthiShrinikaShrikaShreejaStutiShriviShreshtaShrijaShrivaShrestaShrinaShrishaShritaShrileyShronShreeva

Sibling names for Shruti

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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