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Shreyan vs Shriya

American parents have registered 1,915 Shriyas since 1880, against 596 Shreyans. Shriya is still ahead, with 39 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shreyan against Shriya, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shreyan Shriya

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

Shriya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Shreyan had 48 and Shriya had 52.

Side by side

  Shreyan Shriya
Total US births 5961,915
Most in one year 48127
Babies in 2025 2739
Estimated living today 5901,900
Median age today 815
Peak year 20192007
Best rank 2,656th boys1,713th girls
Rank in 2025 3,949th3,780th
First recorded 20041994
Girls / boys 0 / 5961,915 / 0

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 Shriyas alive today are over 15; half the Shreyans are over 8. That is 7 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 Shreyan Shriya
England and Wales 122515

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: Shreyan and Shriya.