Shruti
Shruti was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,983 among girls’ names; 1,095 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Shruti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shruti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shruti mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shruti is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shruti?
#12,983 among girls’ names, 2025
Shruti fell from #5,807 in 2015 to #12,983 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 4.4 per million.
63 babies in 2002, the peak
Shruti peaked in 2002, when 63 girls were given it, #2,523 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,983 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,388 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,336 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,282 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,291 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,453 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,232 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,865 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,807 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,149 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 29 | #4,869 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,091 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,525 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,015 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,466 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,415 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,241 | 27.6 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,498 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,634 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,117 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,120 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,523 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,131 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,110 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,180 | 23.1 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,061 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,431 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,559 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,993 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,496 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,964 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,964 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,539 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,805 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,108 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,045 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,728 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,523 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,490 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,498 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,206 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,856 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,742 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,190 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,939 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,070 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,384 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,996 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shruti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shruti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shruti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shruti, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,095 Americans ever recorded as Shruti. The median Shruti alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,778 people named Shruti (3,766 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times 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 | 32 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 218 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 675 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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 Shruti born?
The states with the most babies named Shruti are California, New Jersey and Illinois, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 140 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 70 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Shruti with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shruti
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 Shruti and names like it
- Compare Shruti and KyleaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShruti peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shruti since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Shruti: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Shruti.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shruti alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.