Siri
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Siri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In English, recorded as Alternative form of sirih (“plant”).
- NONorway1 in 662(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1K
- USUnited States1 in 124K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 662 (inferred from the name graph)
10,123 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One of the palaces of Anomadassī Buddha in his last lay life.’ 1138
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Siri is read(measured from records)
Siri is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English21%
Alternative form of sirih (“plant”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Siri in Hindi.
- Norwegian16%
a female given name, variant of Sigrid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Thai6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Siri in Thai.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Siri 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #397 | 10,123 | 1 in 1K | 10K | Siri | 67 |
| NO Norway | #140 | 8,256 | 1 in 662 | 28K | Siri | 118 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Siri | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Siri | 6 |
| US United States | — | 2,688 | 1 in 124K | 2.6K | Siri | 162 |
| DK Denmark | — | 844 | 1 in 7K | 844 | Siri | 78 |
| FI Finland | — | 708 | 1 in 7.9K | 978 | Siri | 17 |
10,123 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Siri is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, One of the palaces of Anomadassī Buddha in his last lay life.’ 1138
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In pi, One of the palaces of Sujāta Buddha in his last lay life.1
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In Swedish, Siri är en yngre, vardaglig form av → Sigrid. August Strindbergs hustru skådespelerskan Siri von Essen (1850–1912), som egentligen var döpt till Sigrid, har sannolikt bidragit till namnets spridning i början av förra seklet. Namnet var populärt under början av 2000-talet men har minskat de senaste åren. I den rikssvenska almanackan 15 september och i den finlandssvenska 19 juni.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, do lat. senior, mais velho; elemento de composição e título de respeito medieval
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Siri von Essenb. 1850SEFinland Swedish actress married to August Strindberg (1850–1912)
- Siri Derkertb. 1888SESwedish artist (1888–1973)
- Naima Wifstrandb. 1890SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1890–1968)
- Siri Hustvedtb. 1955USAmerican novelist, essayist, poet
- Siri Mullinixb. 1978USAmerican soccer player
- Siri Nordbyb. 1978NONorwegian footballer
- Siri Sveglerb. 1980SESwedish actress
- Siri Nilsenb. 1985NONorwegian singer
- Siri Naseb. 1986DEGerman actor, stage actor and film actor
- Siri Wormb. 1992NLDutch footballer
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 73 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28K | #152 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10K | #395 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 8.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 5.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,077 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 978 | #806 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 844 | #431 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 702 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 106 | #6,077 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #11,296 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Siri come from?
- One of the palaces of Anomadassī Buddha in his last lay life.’ 1138 Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
- What does the name Siri mean?
- In English, Alternative form of sirih (“plant”).
- Is Siri a male or female name?
- Siri 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 Siri?
- In the etymology graph, Siiri is a form of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Sigrid and Sigfrid.
- In which country does Siri have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Siri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siri.
- Where is Siri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Siri is densest in Norway — about 1 in 662 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Siri?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10,123 people named Siri, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Siri compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Siri is the 397th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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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, “Siri” — the 397th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.