Sruti

Girls' name

To hear, through श्रुति

Sruti has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 1997, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Sruti, 2011

1 in 523,000

Sruti over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sruti: meaning, origin, and history

To hear, through श्रुति

Sanskrit

What Sruti means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sruti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sruti comes through Sanskrit श्रुति.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include श्रुति.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Sruti between 1992 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1997; its best national rank was #8,259 in 1997.

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 Sruti?

Sruti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011: 1 in 523,000; 7 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only: 1 in 251,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 362,214 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sruti 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 2011 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 362,214 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sruti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Srutis were born

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

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 60.0% 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

2000s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Sruti 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: 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 1997 (11)
Years since peak: 28; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 40.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,259; 1997

Spellings of Sruti

Sruti is not the most common spelling — Ruth is, with 97.3% against Sruti's 0.01%.

Ruth97.3%836,122
Rubi1.1%9,051
Suri0.41%3,512
Trudi0.37%3,215
Suzi0.16%1,398
Ruhi0.16%1,333
Shruti0.13%1,095
Rumi0.11%953

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.

Sruti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,259; 1997
Peak year: 1997; 11 that year
First recorded: 1992
Last recorded: 2011
All-time count: 110
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sruti

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

Stuti Kruti Sruthi Dhruti Srushti Shruti Dyuti Beauti Sridhruti Prakruti Sanskruti

Sibling names for Sruti

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Dasia Yasmeen Bryana Iman Cydney Kalie Reilly Reanna

For a brother

Austyn Claudio Demarco Marquez Dontae Ronaldo Deion Tariq

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