The name Sri is widespread, and it occurs in some form in a number of languages, including Telugu, Javanese, Sinhala, and Burmese. Its meanings make it a fitting honorific, that is, a prefix used as the first part of a name. Those meanings vary but they have an underlying relationship: “Grace,” “Splendor,” “Luster,” “Beauty,” Wealth,” and “Prosperity.”*
Would you be opposed to having Sri prefixed to your name? Are you Jane? Then, Srijane. Martha? Then Srimartha. The point? When others call you not Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., but Sri, they will be honoring you for that grace, splendor, and luster they see in your life. Is there someone you know to whose name you would affix Sri?
*See etymology of Sri in various sources, even Wikipedia. It also appears in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Would you be opposed to having Sri prefixed to your name? Are you Jane? Then, Srijane. Martha? Then Srimartha. The point? When others call you not Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., but Sri, they will be honoring you for that grace, splendor, and luster they see in your life. Is there someone you know to whose name you would affix Sri?
*See etymology of Sri in various sources, even Wikipedia. It also appears in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Oxford University Press, 2010.
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