Given name
Shishir
“born during the winter”
Shishir is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “born during the winter.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “born during the winter.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shishir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 71
- 71 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 8 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 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 563 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shishir’s family of names
Shishir has a related form in Shisheer. Shishir has a related form in Shishyr. Shishir has a related form in Shysheer.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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.
People named Shishir
- Shishir SharmaIndian actorborn 1940
- Shishir KurupAmerican actorborn 1961
- Shishir BhattacharjeeBangladeshi artist (born 1960)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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