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Sneha

#16,938 in 2025Girls' name

Love, tenderness

Sneha has been given to 1,439 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #16,938 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Sneha, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sneha: meaning, origin, and history

Love, tenderness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sneha means

Sneha means “love, tenderness”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sneha is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Kannada.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,439 girls were recorded with the name Sneha between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,892 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,347 in 2020 to #16,938 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,428 in 2015 to #16,938 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.

How common is Sneha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,938
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sneha 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sneha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Snehas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sneha was born before 2002 — so the typical Sneha is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,439
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (679).

Is Sneha 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
−4,926
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−8,591
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−10,510
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.3%
Peak was 2002 (94)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,892
2002

Spellings of Sneha

Sneha is not the most common spelling — Sasha is, with 29.0% against Sneha's 1.1%.

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 Sneha is used

Across 1910–2025, Sneha was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 207,205 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Sneha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sneha around the world

Where Sneha 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
  • France
    1998–2003
    #3,628
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1993–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1993–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Sneha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,938
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 8,591
Best rank ever
#1,892
2002
Peak year
2002
94 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,439
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Sneha

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

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Sibling names for Sneha

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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