Shree
Feminine · “prosperity”
Shree is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,047 girls against 13 boys since 1880.
Shree is one of the most-used words in Indian life: a title of respect placed before a name, a word for prosperity and radiance, and a name of the goddess Lakshmi.
How old is the name Shree?
Shree first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Shree alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,000 people named Shree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shree most popular?
Shree peaked in 1972, reaching #2598 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 979 places below that high. See the whole 1972 chart.
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Where it comes from
From shri to Shree
The story of Shree
Shri is an old and unusually rich Sanskrit word: it names the quality that makes a thing prosper and shine, and it became a title of the goddess of fortune and then an honorific used millions of times a day across India. Its use as a personal name draws on the divine sense. It reaches American records with families from across the subcontinent, spelled Shree, Shri and Sri depending on the convention followed.
Meaning
prosperity, radiance, auspiciousness
From Sanskrit shri, which covers wealth, beauty, light and good fortune at once and is used as an honorific prefix — the equivalent of Mr or Mrs across much of India — as well as a name of Lakshmi.
How the name formed
- shri
- Shree
Related forms: Shri · Sri · Shri
Pronouncing Shree
SHREE
One syllable; the shr cluster is unusual at the start of an English word but not difficult.
Nicknames for Shree
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 202542 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2598reached in 1972
- Change vs 2024
- +7.7%42 in 2025, from 39
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shree in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shri in Hindi — spelling variant
- Sri in Tamil — spelling variant
- Shri in Sanskrit — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New Jersey, Florida, Georgia.
Shrees among us
people named Shree are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Shree
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Caralyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shree's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Caralyn climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Caralyn's path sketches the road Shree is walking now.
Shree sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Shree is headed
Shree looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 31% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Shree beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shree in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning of unusual richness — wealth, light and good fortune in one word.
- One syllable and five letters, easy to write.
- Recognized instantly across the whole Indian subcontinent.
- It is an honorific across India, which means it is heard as a title as often as a name.
- Shree, Shri and Sri are all in use and relatives may prefer different ones.
- The shr cluster is unfamiliar at the start of an English word and gets misspelled.
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Feminine · #3577 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Shrees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Shree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shree in 2025?
- Shree ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shree?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Shree — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shree with classmates?
- Shree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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