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Shrey vs Shreyas

American parents have registered 1,422 Shreyases since 1880, against 754 Shreys. Shreyas is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shrey against Shreyas, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shrey Shreyas

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 36 years in which either name was published, Shreyas for 35 years and Shrey for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Shrey Shreyas
Total US births 7541,422
Most in one year 4287
Babies in 2025 2527
Estimated living today 7501,400
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20102009
Best rank 2,826th boys1,755th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th3,949th
First recorded 19961987
Girls / boys 0 / 7540 / 1,422

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 Shreyases alive today are over 16; half the Shreys are over 14. That is 2 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 Shrey Shreyas
England and Wales 232149

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: Shrey and Shreyas.