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Smriti

Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Smriti is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Smriti mean?

Sanskrit

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Smriti a girl's or a boy's name?

Smriti is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Smriti in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2012, with 6 girls.

1996Busiest: 6 in 20122021
Smriti in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20211#7,491
20201#7,326
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20141#7,592
20130–
20126#3,881
20110–
20100–
20090–
20083#5,772
20070–
20064#4,357
20053#4,976
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20005#2,907
19990–
19980–
19970–
19961#5,054

How popular is Smriti in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Smriti, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2010, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.

2025 had more girls named Smriti than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Smriti in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

1996Busiest: 18 in 20102025
Smriti in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20240–
20230–
20220–
20216#13,459
20200–
20190–
20185#15,677
20175#15,898
201613#8,390
201514#8,004
201414#8,050
201317#7,027
201212#9,105
201115#7,779
201018#6,901
200915#8,054
20087#13,827
200715#8,094
200610#10,606
200513#8,325
200411#9,259
20038#11,319
200210#9,476
20010–
20007#11,794
19990–
19980–
19970–
19965#13,511

Names like Smriti

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Smriti

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Smriti: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/smriti, updated 20 October 2026.