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Smriti

#12,996 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Smriti has been given to 227 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #12,996 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Smriti, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Smriti: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Smriti means

Smriti is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Smriti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 227 girls were recorded with the name Smriti between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2010; its best national rank was #7,177 in 2010.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,374 in 2015 to #12,996 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 Smriti?

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
#12,996
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Smriti 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 Smriti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Smritis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Smriti was born before 2010 — so the typical Smriti is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
227
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Smriti 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
−4,622
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.9%
Peak was 2010 (18)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,177
2010

Spellings of Smriti

Smriti is not the most common spelling — Sarita is, with 50.5% against Smriti's 2.3%.

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 Smriti is used

Across 1910–2025, Smriti was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 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. Smriti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Smriti around the world

Where Smriti 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
    2000–2012
    #4,171
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1996–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Smriti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,996
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,177
2010
Peak year
2010
18 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
227
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Smriti

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

DhritiSmrithiKritiCharitiAadritiSahitiPritiTrynitiDritiChasitiAdritiSerenitiAakritiTrinitiAkritiCerenitiInfinitiHaitiAditiPrakritiNefertitiRitiNivritiTreniti

Sibling names for Smriti

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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