Srinivas
Meaning
abode of Sri, the goddess Lakshmi: an epithet of Lord Venkateswara (Sanskrit). Arguably the quintessential Telugu man's name of the 1960s-80s cohorts, which is why American tech offices are full of colleagues called Srini; in the diaspora it is now largely a father and grandfather name, honored in middle-name position
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Srinivas has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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