Shirin

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Şirin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, TM Turkmenistan and 2 more, Ширин in KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more, Sirin in TH Thailand, FR France, ES Spain and 1 more and Шырын in KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Shirin is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name4.7K records spelled Shirin10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Spain, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Shîrîn, Sirem, Shirín

• a separate given name1.8K records spelled Shirin5 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Shīrīn, Shīrīn̲, Shîrîn, Shirīn

• Swahili given name935 records spelled Shirin4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Iran, Türkiye

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Shirîn

• Hebrew given name429 records spelled Shirin10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Iran, United States, Azerbaijan

  Also written שירין, Şirin, Shireen, Sirin, סיריין

37 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●

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 name·A 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 name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Arabic, sweet, pleasant, gracious, delicate

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In German, weibl. Vom., englische Schreibweise von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• sweet; pleasant;

  as a name·Muslim 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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 82 years between 1908–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 554 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shirin?

We estimate roughly 7.3 thousand people bear Shirin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Shirin have the most bearers?

Shirin is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled şirin.

How common is Shirin compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Shirin is the 380th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Shirin mean?

Recorded 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…