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Worldwide, Shirow (شيرو , Сиро , Shirow ) is quite a rare unisex given name. The first name Shirow is characteristic of Western Asia, particularly Syria, where it is quite a rare largely masculine, but uncommonly feminine name, Iraq, and Lebanon, where it is quite a rare male name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Syria, Iraq, and Egypt. Likewise, Shirow is the last name as well as the forename.
Shirow is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Shirō Emiya , the fictional character from the Fate series, Fate/stay night; Sunfire , the fictional character in Marvel Comics, Uncanny X-Men and Cyrus the Great in the Bible , the Biblical accounts of Cyrus the Great.