Shireen
Shireen was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,002 among girls’ names; 1,355 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Shireen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 30 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shireen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shireen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shireen is “a female given name from Persian.”
From Persian شیرین.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shireen?
#10,002 among girls’ names, 2025
Shireen rose from #12,844 in 2015 to #10,002 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 6.2 per million.
40 babies in 1991, the peak
Shireen peaked in 1991, when 40 girls were given it, #2,920 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,002 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,018 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,919 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,052 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,002 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,159 | 6.2 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,720 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,230 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,805 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,844 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,902 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,381 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,295 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,558 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,133 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,349 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,411 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,938 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,286 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,779 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,482 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,349 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,781 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,515 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,868 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,765 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,589 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,856 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,860 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,664 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,362 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,945 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,920 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,423 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,031 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,464 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,963 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,538 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,319 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,054 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,533 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,313 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,418 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,288 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,757 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,491 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,160 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,169 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,493 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,533 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,322 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,162 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,501 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,841 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,297 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,856 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,366 | 16.4 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,248 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,595 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,092 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,164 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,813 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,394 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,292 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,971 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,154 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,499 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,669 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,358 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,135 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,060 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,782 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,522 | 21.7 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,033 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,179 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,841 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,139 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,604 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,280 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,280 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,915 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,608 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shireen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shireen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shireen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shireen, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,355 Americans ever recorded as Shireen. The median Shireen alive today is 41 years old; half are between 30 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 2,222 people named Shireen (2,211 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 198 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 308 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 426 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 201 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 104 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shireen born?
The states with the most babies named Shireen are California, New York and Illinois, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 217 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shireen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shireen is most over-represented in California: since 1923 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shireen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,329 babies since 1880, Shireen is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 25 babies (40%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shireen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shireen and names like it
- Compare Shireen and ShirinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShireen peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shireen since 1910.
- Persian namesWiktionary’s origin for Shireen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shireen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shireen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.