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Shruti

Girls' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~1,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#11,932 among girls
Births in 2025
7 1,095 since 1880
Typical age
22 years, median

Shruti popularity over time

Shruti rank by birth year, 1974–2025Shruti ranked #8,775 in 1974 and #11,932 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #2,497, in 2002.#10,000#11,932best #2,497 in 200219801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1974–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2002: 63 births recorded as Shruti. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1974. In 2025 it ranked #11,932 with 7 births.

Compared with 2015, births are down 70%.

Babies named Shruti per yearPeaks at 63 births in 2002.63 in 2002019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Shruti?

An estimated 1,100 living Americans are called Shruti.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Shruti?

Median age among living Shrutis: 22. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Shruti a millennial-era name.

Your Shruti

Ages of living people named ShrutiHalf of living Shrutis are older than 22 and half younger.median 2202040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Shruti in England and Wales

ONS recorded 3 births named Shruti in 2025, ranking it #5,927. That is 25% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Shruti comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रुति.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Shruti

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Shruti Haasan Indian actress 1986 54
Shruti Sharma Indian actress 1981 12
Shruti Mishra Indian badminton player 2002 9
Shruti Sadolikar Indian classical singer 1951 9
Shruti Kurien badminton player 1983 9
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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