Sirikit
Meaning
prosperity, glory (siri 'glory, splendor' + kit 'fame, deed'); famously borne by Queen Sirikit, queen mother of Thailand
The story
Sirikit is a Thai name built from siri, glory and splendor, joined to kit, fame and deed, and in practice it belongs to one woman: Queen Sirikit of Thailand, consort of King Bhumibol Adulyadej for sixty-six years and later the country's revered queen mother. Married in 1950, days before her husband's coronation, she served briefly as regent, championed Thai silk weaving and village crafts through her SUPPORT foundation, and was so beloved that her birthday, the twelfth of August, became Thailand's Mother's Day. For generations of Thais her face, elegant in Thai silk, was simply what a queen looked like. The name has never traveled much beyond Thailand: American records show only the faintest recent trace of it, so choosing Sirikit means choosing a name that points to one remarkable life rather than to a crowd.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sirikit has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Sirikit deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Sirikit 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 Sirikit fits with your family’s names and surname.
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