Shreya (श्रेया) is a Sanskrit name from śreya, meaning "auspicious," "beautiful," "fortunate," or "of good fortune." In Hindu philosophy, śreyas is the path of the higher good — that which leads to ultimate well-being, as opposed to preyas (immediate pleasure).
Shreya is one of the most popular girl names in India and is rising in Western records. The Indian playback singer Shreya Ghoshal has kept the name in international view.
Shreya 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shreya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.