Shirin

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Shirin: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Shirin: Recorded since 1972, it reached #414 in 1981, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#414highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2411
1998	#2165
1999	#3225
2000	#2416
2001	#2466
2003	#1552
2004	#2802
2005	#2682
2006	#4157
2007	#3667
2008	#3005
2009	#4564
2010	#5707
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2013	#3536
2015	#4103
2017	#4063
2018	#5666
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 22 of the 30 years from 1972 to 2001.

In 2001: #554 among girls in Norway, #2466 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1972–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1972
First recorded at #491 among girls in Norway in 1972 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1972–2001
Highest recorded position: #414 among girls in Norway, in 1981 (recorded 1972–2001).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Shirin appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1972, and has registered 124 births with the name.

Shirin across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Shirin's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#491 (1972)	#414 (1981)	#554 (2001)	22 of 30	124 (1972–2001)	9 (1980)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#1552 (2003)	#4843 (2024)	21 of 29	112 (1996–2024)	13 (2003)

Shirin by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Shirin in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970sbusiest	38	6 of 10	6
1980s	53	9 of 10	6
1990s	28	6 of 10	5
2000s	5	1 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Shirin appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #414 in Norway in 1981.

Shirin's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1552	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#554	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#630	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#658	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#653	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#670	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#624	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#538	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#689	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#643	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#544	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#672	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#540	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#667	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#666	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#414	9	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#429	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#487	7	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#523	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#567	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#472	7	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#509	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#491	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1972 and 2024, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #414, first reached in 1981.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Shira · #1500, 28y
Shireen · #380, 26y
Shirley · #30, 72y
Shiv · #809, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Estelle · #391, 42y
Rona · #389, 44y
Rena · #385, 37y
Saleh · #445, 43y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Tonya · #409, 15y
Charleen · #420, 13y
Zelda · #420, 27y
Sharleen · #407, 16y

Shirin was ranked #414 in Norway · Girls in 1981. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Shirin and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Shirin without appearing here.

Shirin moved ahead of

Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3005 and #5545.
Kristine Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4103 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #5765.
Rian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5876 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #5730.
Ollie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2802 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2682 and #3970.

Moved ahead of Shirin

Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #1279.
Shea Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2901.
Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4157 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #2326.
Maren Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #3518.

Moved the opposite way to Shirin

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Shirin

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Shirin went from #2683 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #414 in Norway in 1981. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Shirin

Shirin at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Shirin across 2 official records

Shirin by decade in Norway · Girls

Shirin appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Shirin

Shirin and the names beside it

Shirin moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Shirin

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Shirin at a glance

Shirin across 2 official records

Shirin by decade in Norway · Girls

Shirin appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Shirin

Shirin and the names beside it

Shirin moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Shirin

Moved the opposite way to Shirin

Moved the same way as Shirin