Sriyani
Origin
Sinhala
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
from Sanskrit shri, splendor and good fortune, with the Sinhala feminine ending -yani; a distinctly Sinhala formation of the 1950s-70s cohort
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sriyani has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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