Shiri
Shiri was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,685 among girls’ names; 225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shiri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shiri?
#14,685 among girls’ names, 2025
Shiri entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,685 in 2025.
12 babies in 1978, the peak
Shiri peaked in 1978, when 12 girls were given it, #5,507 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,685 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,279 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,961 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,110 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,506 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,444 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,716 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,813 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,566 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,006 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | #15,122 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,220 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,227 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,407 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,906 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,410 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,672 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,042 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,271 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,667 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,217 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,914 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,931 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,023 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,703 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,221 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,507 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,451 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,172 | 5.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,293 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shiri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shiri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shiri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shiri, and how old are they?
An estimated 219 Americans named Shiri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 19 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 426 people named Shiri (402 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,185 babies since 1880, Shiri is the sixth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 100 babies (6.0%), the fourth 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 Shiri
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 Shiri and names like it
- Compare Shiri and ShiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShiri peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shiri since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Shiri.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shiri alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.