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Shirin

#7,441 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly salty, through شیرین

Shirin has been given to 801 babies in the U.S. since 1938. In 2025 it ranked #7,441 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Shirin, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shirin: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly salty, through شیرین

Persian

What Shirin means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Shirin is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Shirin comes through Persian شیرین.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include شیرین.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 801 girls were recorded with the name Shirin between 1938 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1985; its best national rank was #3,320 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,160 in 2020 to #7,441 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,806 in 2015 to #7,441 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 Shirin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,441
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shirin 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shirin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shirins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shirin was born before 1994 — so the typical Shirin is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
796
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.0% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Shirin 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
+1,431
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,719
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,635
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 1985 (27)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,320
1985

Spellings of Shirin

Shirin is not the most common spelling — Sharon is, with 82.9% against Shirin's 0.09%.

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 Shirin is used

Across 1910–2025, Shirin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 248,781 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. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Shirin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shirin around the world

Where Shirin 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
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1985–2019
    #7,298
    in 2019
  • Norway
    1880–2009
    #627
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1997–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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

Shirin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,441
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,719
Best rank ever
#3,320
1985
Peak year
1985
27 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
801
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Shirin

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

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Sibling names for Shirin

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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