Shirin
Meaning
sweet (the legendary beauty of Khosrow and Shirin)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Shirin has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
When you meet Shirin
Most people given the name Shirin in the United States were born between 1980 and 2019. The Shirin you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Shirin deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Shirin truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Shirin fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Shirin travels
Urdu and Pakistani · sweet (Persian); the legendary queen of the romance Khosrow and Shirin, a story Urdu literary culture knows by heart
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