Entry № 9973 · Sanskrit origin

Sri Sri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHREE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lakshmi / honorific"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "lakshmi / honorific".

Sri is from the Sanskrit Śrī.

Lakshmi / honorific — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

श्री
Transliteration
Śrī
Pronunciation
/ ʃriː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sri stands.

Sri 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.

Sris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sri Vaishnavism / Sri Yantra
Sanskrit auspicious honorific Goddess Lakshmi + honorific prefix Śrī Vishnu + Śrī Krishna + Śrī Ram + Sri Vaishnavism + Sri Yantra Tantric geometric diagram
Hindu naming

Names connected to Sri.

The number behind Sri.

1

The Leader

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