Given name & surname
Shiro
“the fourth-born son”
Shiro is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “the fourth-born son.”
Original Japaneseしろう
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “the fourth-born son.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shiro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 208
- 208 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 220 as a first name in 2020; 216 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.
Shiro’s family of names
Shiro has a related form in Shyro. In English usage, Shiro was borrowed from the Japanese form しろう.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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