Meaning & origin
What it means
Shir is a romanization of שיר. שיר possibly means “song.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Shir is a romanization of שיר. שיר possibly comes from Sumerian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 196
- 0 boys · 196 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,688 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,688 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 422 as a first name in 2020; 220 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shir’s family of names
In Hebrew usage, Shir is a Roman-alphabet rendering of שיר.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Shir
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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