Shiri
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shiri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 781K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.1Kas שירי
- CYCyprus≈1 in 34K
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 Shiri 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 named שירי, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שירי in IL Israel, MA Morocco.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shiri 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #473 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 930 | שירי | 77 |
| US United States | — | 426 | 1 in 781K | 402 | Shiri | 145 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Shiri | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 102 | 1 in 375K | 102 | — | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | שירי | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Shiri | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 307K | — | Shiri | 8 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Shiri is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, 1. actually 2. truly (used between subject and verb)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of しり
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, honey
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
- Shiri Artzib. 1972ILIsraeli actress and writer
- Shiri Lev-Arib. 1974ILIsraeli journalist
- Shiri Applebyb. 1978USAmerican actress and director
- Shiri Artsteinb. 1978ILIsraeli mathematician and professor
- Shiri Maimonb. 1981ILIsraeli singer
- Shiri Eisnerb. 1983ILIsraeli writer and activist
- Shiri Bibasb. 1991ILIsraeli woman kidnapped to Gaza and was murdered in captivity
- Shiri Navon-VeneziaILresearcher
- Shiri ChechikILIsraeli computer scientist
- Shiri Graff van CreveldILresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-3445-3046
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #187,464 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #207,265 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Shiri a male or female name?
- Shiri 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 Shiri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named שירי in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shiri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 426 people named Shiri in 2020, about 1 in 781 thousand residents.
- How common is Shiri compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shiri is the 473rd most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shiri?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shiriThe 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, “Shiri” — the 473rd most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.