The term Srinivasa is Vaishnava in origin, the combination of two Sanskrit words, Shri (श्री) and nivasa (निवास).
Shrinivasan (श्रीनिवासन्) is the singular nominative form, and along with its variants Srinivasan, Srinivas, and others, is used as a forename or surname.
Srinivas is the northern Indian variant of the original Sanskrit name Srinivasa, employed after the schwa-deletion in the Indo-Aryan languages.
Similarly, the dialectical word, Srinivasulu, is commonly used in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
[citation needed] The other variants in English spelling include Sreenivas, Shrinivas, Shreenivas, Srinibas, Shrinibas.