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Shree vs Shriyan

American parents have registered 1,060 Shrees since 1880, against 517 Shriyans. But in 2025 it was Shriyan that was commoner, 44 babies to 42.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shree against Shriyan, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shree Shriyan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 66 years in which either name was published, Shree for 53 years and Shriyan for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Shree Shriyan
Total US births 1,060517
Most in one year 4257
Babies in 2025 4244
Estimated living today 1,000510
Median age today 296
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 3,577th girls2,418th boys
Rank in 2025 3,577th2,833rd
First recorded 19552006
Girls / boys 1,047 / 130 / 517

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Shrees alive today are over 29; half the Shriyans are over 6. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Shree Shriyan
England and Wales 160112

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Shree and Shriyan.