Sri
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘beauty’, ‘prosperity’, also ‘rank’, ‘power’, ‘royal majesty’, a byname of the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sri/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3.1K
- USUnited States1 in 227K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sri itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 476 (inferred from the name graph)
≈560,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sree in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘beauty’, ‘prosperity’, also ‘rank’, ‘power’, ‘royal majesty’, a byname of the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati. Also widely used as an honorific title. Sridhar $ Sanskrit: ‘bearing or possessing Sri (the goddess Lakshmi)’, an epithet of the god Vishnu.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sri counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈560,000 est. | ≈1 in 476 | listed | Sri | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | #717 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 44 | Sri | 70 |
| BD Bangladesh | #146 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Sree | 46 |
| SG Singapore | #516 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Sri | 51 |
| US United States | — | 1,467 | 1 in 227K | 908 | Sri | 280 |
| KW Kuwait | #725 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Sri | 11 |
| QA Qatar | #476 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Sri | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); the id-github-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sri is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, used as a respectful title (like "Reverend") to the names of eminent persons
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of System of Rice Intensification.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Hindu prosperity goddess; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, initialism of Schweizer Radio International, the Swiss international radio station
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Siriano.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sri Wiyantib. 1949IDIndonesian badminton player
- Sri Untarib. 1970IDIndonesian badminton player
- Sri Maryatib. 1976IDIndonesian para badminton player
- Sri Wulansarib. 1990IDIndonesian badminton player
- Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravallib. 1997INbadminton player
- Sri Fatmawatib. 1999IDIndonesian badminton player
- Bening Sri Rahayub. 1999IDbadminton player
- Agnia Sri Rahayub. 2004IDbadminton player
- Sri MulyatiIDIndonesian researcher and academician
- Sri Mulyati Md NoorIDIndonesian political candidate
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 908 | #9,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 559 | #9,461 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity) | 2010 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sri come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘beauty’, ‘prosperity’, also ‘rank’, ‘power’, ‘royal majesty’, a byname of the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati. Also widely used as an honorific title. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Sri?
- A machine transcription gives /sri/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What does the name Sri mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘light’, ‘beauty’, ‘prosperity’, also ‘rank’, ‘power’, ‘royal majesty’, a byname of the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati.
- Is Sri a male or female name?
- Sri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Sri?
- In the etymology graph, Shri is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 561 thousand people named Sri in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sri.
- How common is the name Sri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,467 people named Sri in 2020, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
- How common is Sri compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sri is the 146th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sriThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sri” — the 146th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.