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Shreya vs Shreyas

American parents have registered 5,037 Shreyas since 1880, against 1,422 Shreyases. Shreya is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Shreya 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

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 1987, when Shreya had 5 and Shreyas had 5.

Side by side

  Shreya Shreyas
Total US births 5,0371,422
Most in one year 31487
Babies in 2025 6227
Estimated living today 5,0001,400
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20032009
Best rank 784th girls1,755th boys
Rank in 2025 2,751st3,949th
First recorded 19801987
Girls / boys 5,037 / 00 / 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 Shreyas alive today are over 18; half the Shreyases are over 16. 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 Shreya Shreyas
England and Wales 1,181149
France 455
Ireland 153

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: Shreya and Shreyas.