Shir

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Shir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in English and Hebrew, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M◐
  • AFAfghanistan1 in 21K
  • GYGuyana1 in 107K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈592 ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
103 ●

5.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 107K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

ShirLatin · English●3.7K records
שירHebrew · Yiddish●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Shir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia481517 rec.——Shir30
IL Israel350267 rec.—982Shir57
US United States3263.2K rec.1 in 1M326Shir103
AU Australia257323 rec.——Shir32
GB United Kingdom193172 rec.——Shir22
PL Poland177—1 in 216K177——
DE Germany156270 rec.——Shir40
AF Afghanistan103106 rec.—1Shir11
IN India8363 rec.—15Shir12
CA Canada5786 rec.—5Shir23
SE Sweden50△2 rec.1 in 204K50—4
PH Philippines3818 rec.——Shir13

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.7K18%
  • Hebrew3.3K16%
  • Hindi2.3K11%
  • 2.2K11%
  • Pashto1.1K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,71018%
Hebrew3,29916%
Hindi2,29511%
2,22711%
Pashto1,1146%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Shir is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew given name4.5K records spelled Shir7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written שיר, Sheer, Shyar, Schir, Shîr

  • Hindi given name3.9K records spelled Shir5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Afghanistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Shïr, Śhïr, Šhîr

  • a separate given name2.6K records spelled Shir2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Israel, Pakistan

    Also written Shīr

  • Pashto given name1.8K records spelled Shir6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Pashto, Persian

    Also written Shīr, Şhir

  • English given name1.3K records spelled Shir24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Canada

    Languages: English, Arabic, German

    Also written Shirl, Şhir, Shìr, Şhįř, Shïr

  • French given name505 records spelled Shir3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Israel, Afghanistan

    Also written Shįr, Shīr

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

051015199020002010202014 · 2009

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Shir in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1990–2025
Yearrecords
19906
19917
19927
199310
19957
19966
19977
19989
19997
200110
20027
200311
20047
20059
20065
20077
20087
200914
20109
20116
20137
20145
20158
20177
20245
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 26 years between 1990–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Shir Gottlieb, b. 1974Shir Nosatzki, b. 1984Shir Levi, b. 1985Shir Levo, b. 1988Shir Reuven, b. 1988Shir Tzedek, b. 1989Shir Moreno, b. 1990Shir Cohen, b. 1992Shir Musan, b. 1993

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●

Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Shir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020326#23,266
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020220#90,184
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010187#97,210
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—177#1,104
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026177#1,104
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000146#111,740
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202096#23,266
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—50#13,695
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—39#41,886
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202036—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201934—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201833—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 228 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shir?
We estimate roughly 592 people bear Shir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Shir have the most bearers?
Shir is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled shir.
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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 2026-09-12.

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