Sri

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sri is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘beauty’, ‘prosperity’, also ‘rank’, ‘power’, ‘royal majesty’, a byname of the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 388◐
  • ILIsrael1 in 6.2K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 8.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.4K ●

across 6 countries

#279 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
253 ●

967K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 13K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

SriLatin · English●6.6M records
סריHebrew · Hebrew●4.5K records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled סרי in IL Israel, YE Yemen and শ্রী in BD Bangladesh.

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●

Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘beauty’, ‘prosperity’, also ‘rank’, ‘power’, ‘royal majesty’, a byname of the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati. Also widely used as an honorific title. Sridhar $ Sanskrit: ‘bearing or possessing Sri (the goddess Lakshmi)’, an epithet of the god Vishnu.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#118,391,913916K rec.—29KSri210
IL Israel—8,0078.1K rec.—1.4Kסרי22
MY Malaysia#6827,4887.7K rec.—44Sri71
AU Australia—3,3433.8K rec.—3Sri109
BD Bangladesh#5621,9201.3K rec.——শ্রী45
GB United Kingdom—1,4151.4K rec.—listedSri78
SG Singapore#4831,1181.8K rec.——Sri52
US United States—90819K rec.1 in 366K908Sri253
FR France—9021.6K rec.——Sri99
CA Canada—604826 rec.—2Sri47
SA Saudi Arabia—458200 rec.——Sri24
AE United Arab Emirates#966416659 rec.——Sri42

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English6.6M65%
  • Hindi1.7M17%
  • Indonesian1.5M15%
  • 130K1%
  • Bangla72K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English6,551,42565%
Hindi1,722,94017%
Indonesian1,464,47915%
130,3681%
Bangla71,9541%

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◐

Sri is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name1.5M records spelled Sri13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, United States

    Also written 'Sri, Sri', Šři, Šřî, Srï

  • a separate given name237K records spelled Sri9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written Śrī, Šri, Srī, Śr̲ī, Srí

  • Sinhala given name30K records spelled Sri12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Sri Lanka

    Also written Shri, Shree, Sura, 'Sri, Shura

  • Khmer given name23K records spelled Sri3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Singapore

    Languages: Khmer, Vietnamese

    Also written Srī

  • Swahili given name15K records spelled Sri4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Singapore

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Šŕí

  • Turkish given name1.6K records spelled Sri9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şri, Srî, Şřî

45 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●

Sri is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, used as a respectful title (like "Reverend") to the names of eminent persons

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Initialism of System of Rice Intensification.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Hindu prosperity goddess; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In German, initialism of Schweizer Radio International, the Swiss international radio station

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Siriano.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

020406020002005201020152020

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Sri in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199911
200011
200112
200211
200311
200411
200512
200611
200712
200817
200917
201017
201119
201219
201320
201421
201526
201630
201731
201838
201945
202050

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Sri Wiyanti, b. 1949Sri Untari, b. 1970Sri Maryati, b. 1976Sri Wulansari, b. 1990Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli, b. 1997Sri Fatmawati, b. 1999Bening Sri Rahayu, b. 1999Agnia Sri Rahayu, b. 2004

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●

Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Sri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—2.2K#1,704
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.1K#3,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020908#9,461
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020559#9,461
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—297#3,952
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—84#6,042
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—77#6,505
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—67#6,571
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—60#10,609
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202050—
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—44—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—37#2,806

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 111 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sri?
We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Sri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Sri have the most bearers?
Sri is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sri.
How common is Sri compared with other names?
In India, Sri is the 11th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Sri a male or female name?
Sri is a male 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 Sri mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘beauty’, ‘prosperity’, also ‘rank’, ‘power’, ‘royal majesty’, a byname of the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sri” — the 11th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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