Shirin
Shirin was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,441 among girls’ names; 801 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shirin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shirin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shirin 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 Shirin?
#7,441 among girls’ names, 2025
Shirin fell from #5,806 in 2015 to #7,441 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 9.3 per million.
27 babies in 1985, the peak
Shirin peaked in 1985, when 27 girls were given it, #3,320 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,441 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,872 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,212 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,583 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,328 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,160 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,602 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,488 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,843 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,329 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,806 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,885 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,696 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,139 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,009 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,365 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,005 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,412 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,523 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,809 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,803 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,454 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,535 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,969 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,267 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,285 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,643 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,168 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,787 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,509 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,435 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,944 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,985 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,505 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,358 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,420 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,504 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,043 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,247 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,167 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,320 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,466 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,662 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,908 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,740 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,289 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,391 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,426 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,895 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,512 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,381 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,171 | 6.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,154 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,404 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,686 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,151 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,379 | 4.8 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,709 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,919 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,458 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,131 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,988 | 2.9 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,916 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shirin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shirin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shirin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shirin, and how old are they?
An estimated 774 Americans named Shirin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 16 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,271 people named Shirin (3,229 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 717 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 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).
Where are babies named Shirin born?
The states with the most babies named Shirin are California, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 125 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shirin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shirin is most over-represented in California: since 1938 it was given 1.2 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 Shirin 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, Shirin is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 25 babies (60%), the 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 Shirin
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 Shirin and names like it
- Compare Shirin and ShireenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShirin peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shirin since 1910.
- Persian namesWiktionary’s origin for Shirin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Shirin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shirin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.