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Srihari

Boys' name

Light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness, through श्री

Srihari has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2004, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Srihari, 2024

1 in 669,000

Srihari over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Srihari: meaning, origin, and history

Light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness, through श्री

Sanskrit

What Srihari means

Srihari belongs to the name family reached through Srihari → श्री. Its meaning is “light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Srihari is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Srihari comes through Sanskrit श्री.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include श्री.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 boys were recorded with the name Srihari between 2001 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,908 in 2004.

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 Srihari?

Srihari had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Srihari 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Srihari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sriharis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Srihari was born before 2011 — so the typical Srihari is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
110
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Srihari 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (11)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,908
2004

Srihari around the world

Where Srihari 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
    2011–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Srihari 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
—
Best rank ever
#6,908
2004
Peak year
2004
11 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Srihari

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

SrianshSrihaanSrimanSriyanshSriyaanSrihithKeimariJahcariJhakariDekhariZahmariZahkariJahbariTakhariSrithanKeymariJaquariJhacariSriyanSrihanTavariYamariTahariNavari

Sibling names for Srihari

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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