Shrey
Masculine · “auspicious”
Shrey is the clipped form of the Shreyas family, and the syllable shri behind it is one of the most loaded in Sanskrit.
How old is the name Shrey?
Shrey first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Shrey alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 700 people named Shrey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shrey most popular?
Shrey peaked in 2010, reaching #2826 nationally. Today it ranks #4139, 1,313 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shrey
Ours, offered as ours. What is worth noticing about Shrey is that Indian naming is now doing what English naming did centuries ago — clipping its own long names and registering the clips. Shreyas gives Shrey, Aaditya gives Aadi, Prathamesh gives Prathu. That is a naming tradition reaching the same stage of familiarity with its own stock that produced Bill from William and Ted from Theodore, and it is happening within living memory.
Meaningscholars disagree
auspicious, excellent
From Sanskrit shri, splendor, prosperity and auspiciousness together; Shrey is a modern clip of Shreyas or Shreyansh rather than a classical word in its own right. The root is genuine and the short form is recent.
Pronouncing Shrey
SHRAY
One syllable. The shr opening is unusual at the start of an English word.
Nicknames for Shrey
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
- 1996
- Most boys named
- 201042 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2826reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- +56.3%25 in 2025, from 16
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.
Shrey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shrey in Hindi — transliteration
- Shri in Sanskrit — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New Jersey.
Shreys among us
people named Shrey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was named Shrey
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 Keithan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shrey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Keithan climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Keithan's path sketches the road Shrey is walking now.
Shrey 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 Shrey is headed
Shrey is easing off slowly — about 16% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Shrey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shrey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Five letters and one syllable — as short as a name gets.
- A genuinely rich Sanskrit root stands behind it.
- Very widely used among Indian families in the last two decades.
- The shr opening is unfamiliar to English mouths and gets a vowel inserted.
- It reads as a shortening to Indian speakers, which may matter on a document.
- Shrey, Shreyas and Shreyansh are all in use and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shreys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Shrey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shrey in 2025?
- Shrey ranks #4139 among US boy names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shrey?
- About 1 in every 68,323 US boys born in 2025 was named Shrey — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shrey with classmates?
- Shrey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Shrey
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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