How rare is the name Shruti?

3,778 people in the United States have the first name Shruti, about 1 in 79,945. It ranks #4,786 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHRUTI

#4,786

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,778
About
1 in 79,945
This common or more
84.5%
Who bears it

Of the 3,778 people named Shruti, 96.9% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 2.1% as White. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shruti peaked in 2002, when 63 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19742025
Peak year
2002
Births that year
63
In 2025*
7 ▼89%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 1,095 babies have been given the name since 1974. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Shruti by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #5,549. The largest share of babies named Shruti, 62.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#15,12228
1980s#9,853103
1990s#7,025244
2000s#5,549474
2010s#9,953220
2020s#24,43526
Generation X 1965–803.1%
Millennials 1981–9620.5%
Generation Z 1997–1262.3%
2013 and later14.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Shruti

#4,784 Claribel · 3,785#4,785 Rommel · 3,783#4,787 Bjorn · 3,776#4,787 Fatimah · 3,776

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shruti, most common first.

#9,194 Shruthi · 1,531

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