Shirin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim name, from Persian: ‘sweet’, ‘charming’; name of the daughter of the Byzantine emperor Maurice (c.5 39-602), celebrated in Persian and Turkish romances as the beloved of the lowly Farhad, whose
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃɪɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shirin 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.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 2.2K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.3K
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 Shirin 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 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Şirin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, TM Turkmenistan 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)
Muslim name, from Persian: ‘sweet’, ‘charming’; name of the daughter of the Byzantine emperor Maurice (c.5 39-602), celebrated in Persian and Turkish romances as the beloved of the lowly Farhad, whose royal rival Khusrao deceitfully brings about his death.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shirin 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 |
| US United States | — | 3,271 | 1 in 102K | 3.2K | Shirin | 284 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #379 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ширин | 18 |
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; the uz-ismlarim register. 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)
Shirin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Muslim name of Persian or Arabic origin, now beginning to be used quite widely in the English-speaking world. Variants: Shirrin, Shireen.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Shirin (m.fl. former) är ett persiskt kvinnonamn som betyder ’söt; behaglig’. En klassisk persisk saga handlar om kärleksparet Khosrow och Shirin. En känd namnbärare är den iranska advokaten och Nobelpristagaren Shirin Ebadi (f. 1947).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, sweet, pleasant, gracious, delicate
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In German, weibl. Vom., englische Schreibweise von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
sweet; pleasant;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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. 600IRwife of Khosrau II
- Shirin Akinerb. 1943BDlecturer
- Shirin Ebadib. 1947IRIranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Shirin Yazdanbakhshb. 1949IRIranian actress (1949-2025)
- Shirin Neshatb. 1957USIranian artist, film director, and photographer (born 1957)
- Shirin M. Raib. 1960INIndian academic (born 1960)
- Shirin Sharmin Chaudhuryb. 1966BDBengali politician
- Shirin Aliabadib. 1973IRIranian artist
- Shirin Davidb. 1995DEGerman rapper, singer and former YouTuber
- Shirin van Anrooijb. 2002NLDutch 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).
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 65 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 42 | #5,300 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Shirin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɪɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Shirin mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim name, from Persian: ‘sweet’, ‘charming’; name of the daughter of the Byzantine emperor Maurice (c.5 39-602), celebrated in Persian and Turkish romances as the beloved of the lowly Farhad, whose… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Shirin?
- In the etymology graph, Şirin is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Shirin a male or female name?
- Shirin 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 Shirin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Shirin in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shirin.
- How common is the name Shirin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,271 people named Shirin in 2020, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Shirin compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shirin 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/shirinThe 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, “Shirin” — the 310th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.