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Sriram vs Sriya

American parents have registered 634 Sriyas since 1880, against 621 Srirams. But in 2025 it was Sriram that was commoner, 13 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sriram against Sriya, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sriram Sriya

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 34 years in which either name was published, Sriram for 22 years and Sriya for 12 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Sriram Sriya
Total US births 621634
Most in one year 3757
Babies in 2025 1312
Estimated living today 610630
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20082003
Best rank 3,103rd boys2,737th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446th8,362nd
First recorded 19791998
Girls / boys 0 / 621634 / 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.

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 Sriram Sriya
England and Wales 3656

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: Sriram and Sriya.