Shruti

Where Shruti comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रुति (śruti).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shruti
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #8,775 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2002
    Peak, #2,497
    63 babies named Shruti — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,358.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Namesakes

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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.