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Shir

#14,684 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Shir has been given to 196 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #14,684 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Shir, 2025

1 in 553,000

Shir over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shir: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shir means

Shir has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Shir

One of the source’s documented entries for Shir records a meaning of song.

A separate documented entry treats Shir as a form of Sher. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 196 girls were recorded with the name Shir between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2009; its best national rank was #8,618 in 1993.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,843 in 2015 to #14,684 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,684
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shir was born before 2004 — so the typical Shir is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
196
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Shir rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,642
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,841
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2009 (14)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,618
1993

Spellings of Shir

Shir is not the most common spelling — Sheri is, with 32.6% against Shir's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shir is used

Across 1910–2025, Shir was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shir around the world

Where Shir ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • France
    2020–2025
    #6,489
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,433
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shir by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,684
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,618
1993
Peak year
2009
14 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
196
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Shir

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShizaShiriShineShiahShifaShiaShioriShiyaShirelShiaraShivyaShivaShireShiffyShiShimaShianShinaShirinShirlaShiloNehirShilahShikha

Sibling names for Shir

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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