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Shrithik vs Shruti

American parents have registered 1,095 Shrutis since 1880, against 58 Shrithiks. Shruti is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shrithik against Shruti, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shrithik Shruti

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 50 years in which either name was published, Shruti for 46 years and Shrithik for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Shrithik Shruti
Total US births 581,095
Most in one year 2163
Babies in 2025 67
Estimated living today 601,100
Median age today 222
Peak year 20242002
Best rank 4,701st boys2,497th girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th11,932nd
First recorded 20211974
Girls / boys 0 / 581,095 / 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 Shrutis alive today are over 22; half the Shrithiks are over 2. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Shrithik Shruti
England and Wales 7152

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: Shrithik and Shruti.