Shreyan
Masculine · “auspicious”
Shreyan is built on shri, one of the densest words in Sanskrit — prosperity, radiance and auspiciousness in a single syllable.
How old is the name Shreyan?
Shreyan first appears in US birth records in 2004 — 21 years ago. The typical Shreyan is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Shreyan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shreyan most popular?
Shreyan peaked in 2019, reaching #2656 nationally. Today it ranks #3949, 1,293 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shreyan
Ours, offered as ours. Shri is a word Indian languages use constantly and in several registers at once: it is an honorific before a name, a name of Lakshmi, and a noun for the quality that makes things prosper. Sanskrit builds freely on it — Shreyas, Shreyan, Shreya, Shrijan — and the modern names are new formations on very old material. Distinguishing the ancient root from the recent compound is the honest thing to do.
Meaningscholars disagree
auspicious, excellent
From Sanskrit shri, splendor or good fortune, with an -an ending; the related Shreyas is the classical comparative and Shreyan a modern formation on the same root. The elements are genuine and the compound is recent.
Pronouncing Shreyan
SHREH-yan
Two syllables, first stressed. The shr opening is unusual in English.
Nicknames for Shreyan
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
- 2004
- Most boys named
- 201948 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2656reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- +17.4%27 in 2025, from 23
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.
Shreyan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shreyan in Hindi — transliteration
- Shri in Sanskrit — related form
- Shreyan in Bengali — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Shreyans among us
people named Shreyan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 63,262 born in 2025 was named Shreyan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Shreyan
- #3949
- Shreyan on the 2025 chart
- #889
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Shreyan went to 27 boys in 2025, but Shreyaan and Shreeyan are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 39, which makes it the 889th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,060 places above the chart.
- Shreyan27
- Shreyaan7
- Shreeyan5
About 1 boy in 43,797 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 63,262 for Shreyan itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Eutimio test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Shreyan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Eutimio climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Eutimio's path sketches the road Shreyan is walking now.
Shreyan 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 Shreyan is headed
Shreyan is easing off slowly — about 22% 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.
Shreyan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Shreyan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Shrey is a complete short form in current use.
- A genuinely ancient and unusually rich Sanskrit root stands behind it.
- Seven letters and two syllables, straightforward to write.
- The shr opening is unfamiliar at the start of an English word.
- Shreyan, Shreyas and Shreyansh are all in use and get confused.
- The compound is modern, so classical dictionaries will not have it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shreyans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Shreyan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Shreyan?
- Shreyan is the most-used spelling in US records — 27 of the 39 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Shreyaan and Shreeyan.
- How popular is the name Shreyan in 2025?
- Shreyan ranks #3949 among US boy names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Shreyan?
- About 1 in every 63,262 US boys born in 2025 was named Shreyan — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Shreyan with classmates?
- Shreyan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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