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Shreeya vs Shreya

American parents have registered 5,037 Shreyas since 1880, against 588 Shreeyas. Shreya is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shreeya against Shreya, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shreeya Shreya

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

Shreya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Shreeya had 44 and Shreya had 211.

Side by side

  Shreeya Shreya
Total US births 5885,037
Most in one year 44314
Babies in 2025 1062
Estimated living today 5805,000
Median age today 1518
Peak year 20082003
Best rank 3,645th girls784th girls
Rank in 2025 9,457th2,751st
First recorded 19961980
Girls / boys 588 / 05,037 / 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 Shreyas alive today are over 18; half the Shreeyas are over 15. That is 3 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 Shreeya Shreya
England and Wales 2341,181

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: Shreeya and Shreya.