Shiraz
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shiraz has been given to 176 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% boys, 32% girls all-time.
Babies named Shiraz, 2013
1 in 608,000
Shiraz over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shiraz over time
In 2013, Shiraz went to 45% girls and 55% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shiraz?
Shiraz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,645,938 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 315,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,196 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shiraz sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shiraz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shirazs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shiraz was born before 1993 — so the typical Shiraz is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 34.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 119
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (41).
Is Shiraz 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (8)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shiraz
Shiraz is not the most common spelling — Hiram is, with 69.3% against Shiraz's 0.57%.
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.
Shiraz around the world
Where Shiraz 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 & Wales1996–2022#4,790in 2022
- Canada1998–2005#2,303in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shiraz by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shiraz
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shiraz
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.