Shreya
Shreya was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,772 among girls’ names; 5,037 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,990 Americans named Shreya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shreya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shreya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shreya is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रेया (śreyā).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shreya?
#2,772 among girls’ names, 2025
Shreya fell from #1,398 in 2015 to #2,772 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 94.1 to 38.6 per million.
314 babies in 2003, the peak
Shreya peaked in 2003, when 314 girls were given it, #786 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,772 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,552 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,491 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,273 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,248 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 92 | #2,031 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,722 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,911 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 136 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,588 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 168 | #1,398 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 172 | #1,361 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 159 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,331 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 222 | #1,115 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 183 | #1,295 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,172 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 211 | #1,210 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 228 | #1,132 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 234 | #1,086 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 261 | #950 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 288 | #854 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 314 | #786 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 255 | #886 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 209 | #1,033 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 165 | #1,206 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,368 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,453 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,704 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,786 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,384 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,517 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,792 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,946 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,779 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,093 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,099 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,941 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shreya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shreya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shreya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shreya, and how old are they?
4,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,037 Americans ever recorded as Shreya. The median Shreya alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,358 people named Shreya (6,329 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,450 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shreya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,893 | 0.8× |
| California | 9 | #2,255 | 1.4× |
Where Shreya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shreya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1980 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shreya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,556 babies since 1880, Shreya is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 114 babies (54%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shreya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shreya and names like it
- Compare Shreya and SheraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShreya peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shreya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Shreya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Shreya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shreya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.