Entry № 9823 · Sanskrit origin

Smriti Smriti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SMRIH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Memory / remembrance (Smriti Mandhana, top Indian women's cricket batter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "memory / remembrance (smriti mandhana, top indian women's cricket batter)".

Smriti (स्मृति) is from the Sanskrit smṛti — "memory, remembrance" — also a category of Hindu sacred literature meaning "that which is remembered" (the Smṛti texts include the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, and Dharma-shastras). Smriti Mandhana (born 1996) — Indian women's cricket opening batter; the youngest woman ever to score a Test century for India (at 19, against Australia 2016); awarded the International Cricket Council's Women's Cricketer of the Year three times (2018, 2021, 2024) — the most by any player male or female since the ICC award was created. Padma Shri (2019).

Memory / remembrance.

The name in its native script.

स्मृति
Transliteration
Smṛti
Pronunciation
/ ˈsmr̩.t̪iː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Smriti stands.

Smriti 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.

Smritis before her.

Real people
Smriti Mandhana
Indian women's cricket batter.
born 1996
Smriti Irani
Indian politician.
born 1976
In fiction
Smriti
Smṛti Hindu sacred texts.

Names connected to Smriti.

The number behind Smriti.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Smriti reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.