Entry № 8296 · Sanskrit origin

Preeti Preeti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PREE-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Love / pleasure (Sanskrit; Preeti Zinta Bollywood)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "love / pleasure (sanskrit; preeti zinta bollywood)".

Preeti is from the Sanskrit prīti (love, pleasure, joy). Preity Zinta; appears throughout the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and classical Sanskrit poetry. Preeti Mukherjee — modern Indian actress. Preeti Jhangiani (born 1980) — Indian actress. Preeti is one of the most-commonly-chosen names for daughters in modern Hindu families both in India and the global Indian-American diaspora.

Love / pleasure.

The name in its native script.

प्रीति
Transliteration
Prīti
Pronunciation
/ ˈpriː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Preeti stands.

Preeti does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Preetis before her.

Real people
Preity Zinta
Indian Bollywood 5x Filmfare nominee.
born 1975
In fiction
Preeti
Sanskrit love concept.

Names connected to Preeti.

The number behind Preeti.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Preeti reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.