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Around the globe, שייר (Shere , Shire , Shyer ) is a common gender-neutral forename. The forename שייר is habitual in Ethiopia, where it is quite a rare epicene name, Somalia, where it is quite a rare male name, and Egypt, where it is quite a rare primarily female, but very infrequently boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Ethiopia, India, and Egypt. More frequently, שייר is the last name as well as the forename.
שייר is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Shere Khan , the fictional character from Kiplings "The Jungle Book"; Shere Khan , the fictional tiger from Disney's Jungle Book, The Jungle Book and Shere Khan , the musical character in the musical The Jungle Book by László Dés.