Şirin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şirin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 33rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Tatlı, sevimli, cana yakın.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 504(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.9K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Şirin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 504 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 named Shirin, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shirin in AF Afghanistan, BD Bangladesh, ES Spain and Ширин in KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tatlı, sevimli, cana yakın.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şirin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #310 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | listed | Shirin | 55 |
| TR Türkiye | #384 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Şirin | 69 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #617 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Ширин | 23 |
| AF Afghanistan | #33 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Shirin | 13 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #64 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 504 | — | Şirin | 10 |
| SY Syria | #254 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Şirin | 11 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #379 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ширин | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 329 | 1 in 152K | 329 | Shirin | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Şirin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Azerbaijani, sweet, cute
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkmen, Süýji,datly,tagamly.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shirinb. 600IRnot in their usual namewife of Khosrau II
- Şirin Hatunb. 1450TRConcubine of Bayezid II
- Şirin Tekelib. 1944TRTurkish writer (1944–2017)
- Shirin Ebadib. 1947IRnot in their usual nameIranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Shirin Yazdanbakhshb. 1949IRnot in their usual nameIranian actress (1949-2025)
- Shirin Neshatb. 1957USnot in their usual nameIranian artist, film director, and photographer (born 1957)
- Shirin Sharmin Chaudhuryb. 1966BDnot in their usual nameBengali politician
- Shirin Aliabadib. 1973IRnot in their usual nameIranian artist
- Shirin Davidb. 1995DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper, singer and former YouTuber
- Shirin van Anrooijb. 2002NLnot in their usual nameDutch cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şirin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tatlı, sevimli, cana yakın.
- Is Şirin a male or female name?
- Şirin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Şirin?
- In the etymology graph, Shirin, Shereen and Shireen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Şirin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Shirin in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Şirin?
- In Spain, the national register counted 329 people named Şirin, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
- How common is Şirin compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Şirin is the 310th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FirinThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Şirin” — the 310th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.