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Shiro

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Shiro has been given to 208 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1922, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Shiro, 2023

1 in 663,000

Shiro over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shiro: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Japanese

What Shiro means

Shiro is a alternate transcription of Kanji.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shiro is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɕi.ɾo̞ː/ for Shiro.

Origin, language, and formation

Shiro is used in English and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Shiro comes through Japanese しろう.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kanji.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Shiro is pronounced /ˈʃiɾo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 208 boys were recorded with the name Shiro between 1915 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,818 in 1922.

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 Shiro?

Shiro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shiro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shiro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shiros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shiro was born before 1923 — so the typical Shiro is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
57.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Shiro 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (20)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,818
1922

Spellings of Shiro

Shiro is not the most common spelling — Jairo is, with 16.1% against Shiro's 0.29%.

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 Shiro is used

Across 1910–2025, Shiro was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 168,215 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Shiro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shiro around the world

Where Shiro 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
    2016–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Shiro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,818
1922
Peak year
1922
20 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
208
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shiro

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

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Sibling names for Shiro

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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