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Shireen

#10,002 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly salty, through شیرین

Shireen has been given to 1,355 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #10,002 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Shireen, 2025

1 in 332,000

Shireen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shireen: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly salty, through شیرین

Persian

What Shireen means

Shireen belongs to the name family reached through Shireen → شیرین. Its meaning is “salty”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shireen is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Shireen comes through Persian شیرین.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include شیرین.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,355 girls were recorded with the name Shireen between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,522 in 1951.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,159 in 2020 to #10,002 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,844 in 2015 to #10,002 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shireen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,002
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shireen 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shireen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shireens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shireen was born before 1984 — so the typical Shireen is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,293
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Shireen 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
+5,016
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+157
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,842
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 1991 (40)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,522
1951

Spellings of Shireen

Shireen is not the most common spelling — Shirley is, with 93.9% against Shireen's 0.19%.

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 Shireen is used

Across 1910–2025, Shireen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 196,518 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Shireen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shireen around the world

Where Shireen 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–1990
    #615
    in 1990
  • Ireland
    1989–1990
    #380
    in 1990
  • France
    1996–1996
    #3,838
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1992–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1954–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shireen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,002
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 157
Best rank ever
#1,522
1951
Peak year
1991
40 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,355
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Shireen

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

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Sibling names for Shireen

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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