Preet — boys' name

What the Data Says About Preet

The Social Security Administration has registered 148 babies named Preet between 1997 and 2017, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Preet currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Preet is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 88 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Preet performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 83 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Preet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Preet in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 148 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.