Priti — girls' name
264 babies named Priti in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Priti was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Priti in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Priti
The Social Security Administration has registered 264 babies named Priti between 1972 and 2021, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Priti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Priti performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Priti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Priti in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Priti 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 264 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.
Priti at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Priti popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1972
- Peak year (1980)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 50 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
264 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 22 births in a single year.
Priti by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 109 births that decade — 41% of Priti's all-time total
Priti decade highlights
- Peak decade 109 births
- Runner-up 92 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Priti's strongest decade
109 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Priti by state
Where Priti concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New Jersey | | 6 | 2.3% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 5 | 1.9% |
6 of 264 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New Jersey 2.3% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New Jersey accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.