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Sreshta

Girl · SRESH-tah · Sanskrit

Sreshta is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “best, most excellent”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Sreshta mean?

Sanskrit: from Sanskrit shreshtha

“best, most excellent”

From the Sanskrit superlative shreshtha 'best, foremost', a word also used in Hindi and Telugu.

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SRESH-tah

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

Sreshta is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sreshta in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,883among girls
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 120,000 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, 13 girls in the US were named Sreshta, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.

Half of all the girls named Sreshta in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2005Busiest: 20 in 20172025
Sreshta in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
20247#12,156
202312#8,481
202214#7,626
202114#7,625
20208#11,085
201915#7,338
20189#10,540
201720#6,040
201616#7,227
201515#7,610
201414#8,050
201313#8,575
201214#8,204
201111#9,719
20100–
20098#12,423
200811#10,080
20075#17,630
20060–
20056#14,495

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