Preeti
The name carries the sense of "love" and "joy". In Poland it belongs to just 26 women, and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Preeti Pronunciation
What Preeti means
Where Preeti comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Preeti comes from the Sanskrit word prīti, meaning love and joy. Its origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most Polish name registers. In older Sanskrit writing prīti named affection and delight, the pleasure one person takes in another.
The name holds close to that root. Preeti still means love. Carried into Polish, the sense arrives as one plain word, miłość.
On a class register in a Polish school, Preeti would sit among names built from Slavic and Christian sources, its Sanskrit beginning marking a different origin. The name has no Polish diminutive of its own, no name-day fixed on the calendar. What it keeps is the meaning it began with. Read it back to the root and you reach prīti: love, joy.
How many people are named Preeti
1 in 867071 women in Poland is named Preeti. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8366 among female names.