Shreyas

Classical Sanskrit origin

श्रेयस् (śreyas): more splendid or beautiful, more excellent or distinguished, superior, preferable, better, better than (with abl. or with See below).

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Traditional associations

In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.

• Rashi: Kumbh
• Nakshatra: Shatabhisha
• More names starting with S

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “more splendid or beautiful, more excellent or distinguished, superior, preferable, better, better than (with abl. or with See below)”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Shreya — Meanings families give: Auspicious, fortunate; Auspicious, fortunate, excellent; Auspicious, best; one who brings good fortune; Auspicious, better, fortunate; Auspicious, fortunate, prosperity; Beautiful, auspicious, fortunate
• Utkarsh — elevation, increase, rising to something better, prosperity
• Samir — air, breeze, wind (also of the body See below)
• Samit — (for - See below) come together, assembled, joined or united or combined with (instr. or comp.)
• Sanaya — Eminent, distinguished
• Ankitha — Marked, distinguished, signed

More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Marathi / Sanskrit-Telugu origin

• Atharva — the Atharva-veda or the ritual of it
• Pranav — Meanings families give: Sacred syllable Om; The sacred syllable Om, the cosmic sound of creation; Sacred Om syllable; Sacred syllable Om, life force; Sacred syllable Om, holy sound
• Madhav — Meanings families give: Sweet one, born in spring, a name of Lord Krishna; Born in spring, Krishna; Lord Krishna, sweet as honey
• Rajiv — a blue lotus-flower
• Satish — Meanings families give: Lord of truth, master of righteousness and justice; Lord of goodness, truth; Lord of truth, ruler of hundred
• Subhash — Meanings families give: One who speaks sweetly and eloquently; Speaking well, eloquent; Of good speech, eloquent

Other names under Kumbh rashi

• Saanvi — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi; Goddess Lakshmi, one who follows; Goddess Lakshmi, knowledge
• Siya — Meanings families give: Goddess Sita; Goddess Sita, white; Goddess Sita, pure white
• Shiv — n. auspicious, propitious, gracious, favourable, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly, dear ( ind. kindly, tenderly)
• Shivansh — Meanings families give: Part of Lord Shiva; Part of Shiva, a divine fragment of the cosmic lord
• Siddharth — Meanings families give: One who has attained; One who has accomplished his goals, Gautam Buddha; One who has attained his goals, Buddha; One who has attained his goals; One who has attained his goal; One who has attained goals; the Buddha
• Shanaya — Meanings families give: First ray of sun; Eminent, first ray of sun; First ray of sun, eminent

Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Kumbh names.

Where this comes from

Shreyas's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.