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Sridhar

Boys' name

From Tamil ஸ்ரீதர்; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sridhar has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1973, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Sridhar, 2012

1 in 732,000

Sridhar over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sridhar: meaning, origin, and history

From Tamil ஸ்ரீதர்; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sridhar means

Sridhar is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Tamil ஶ்ரீதர் (śrītar) and Telugu శ్రీధర్ (śrīdhar).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Sridhar (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Sridhar is used in English.

Sridhar comes through Tamil ஸ்ரீதர் and Telugu శ్రీధర్.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 boys were recorded with the name Sridhar between 1973 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1973; its best national rank was #4,009 in 1973.

How common is Sridhar?

Sridhar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sridhar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sridhar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sridhars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sridhar was born before 1973 — so the typical Sridhar is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Sridhar 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (8)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,009
1973

Sridhar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,009
1973
Peak year
1973
8 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sridhar

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

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Sibling names for Sridhar

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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