Shreya

Where Shreya comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रेया (śreyā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shreya
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #8,178 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1984
    Shreya Ghoshal born
    Indian playback singer
  3. 1985
    Shreya Narayan born
    actress
  4. 2003
    Peak, #784
    314 babies named Shreya — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,580.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Namesakes
  • Shreya Ghoshal · Indian playback singer, born 1984
  • Shreya Narayan · actress, born 1985
  • Shreya Jaydeep · Indian singer, born 2005
  • Shreya Guhathakurta · singer, born 1975
  • Shreya Dhital · Nepalese swimmer, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.