Smriti

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sumathi in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, FI Finland and 2 more, Sumati in IN India, FR France, TH Thailand and 1 more, Sriti in SE Sweden and Samati in MA Morocco.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Smriti is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Sinhala given name272 records spelled Smriti2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

• Thai given name187 records spelled Smriti11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States, Russia

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written Somrith, สมรท, สมริท, สมรัท์, สัมริท

• Croatian given name58 records spelled Smriti7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

  Also written Смрити

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Smriti is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A specific body of Hindu religious scripture.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Sekundāri vēdiskie teksti, kas balstās uz Vēdu autoritāti un ir svētas vēdiskās tradīcijas teiksmas

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1908–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Smriti Nagpalb. 1995INIndian Social Entrepreneur
• Smriti MorarkaINIndian reviving handwoven cloth
• Smriti MahajanINresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Smriti?

We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Smriti (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Smriti have the most bearers?

Smriti is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sumati.

How common is Smriti compared with other names?

In India, Smriti is the 924th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Smriti a male or female name?

Smriti is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Smriti mean?

Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit स्मृति (smṛ́ti).