Shir
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 788K(measured from records)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.1K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1 | Shir | 6 |
| IL Israel | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 982 | Shir | 54 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Shir | 28 |
| US United States | 422 | 1 in 788K | 326 | Shir | 124 |
| PL Poland | 197 | 1 in 194K | 177 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Shir | 18 |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Shir 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 enm, alternative form of schyre (“bright”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, past indicative analytic of sir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Shir Gottliebb. 1974ILIsraeli actress
- Shir Nosatzkib. 1984ILIsraeli social and political activist
- Shir Levib. 1985ILIsraeli singer
- Shir Levob. 1988ILIsraeli association football player
- Shir Reuvenb. 1988ILIsraeli screenwriter and journalist
- Shir Tzedekb. 1989ILIsraeli footballer
- Shir Morenob. 1990ILIsraeli actress, model, and television host
- Shir Cohenb. 1992ILIsraeli spokeswomen
- Shir Musanb. 1993ILIsraeli photographer and video editor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 326 | #23,266 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 177 | #1,104 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 177 | #1,104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #23,266 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 20 | #6,517 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #6,442 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 7 | #587 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Shir?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɝ/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Shir a male or female name?
- Shir 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.
- In which country does Shir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Shir in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shir.
- How common is the name Shir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 422 people named Shir in 2020, about 1 in 788 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Shir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.