Meaning and history
Shirin is a Persian name meaning “sweet” and was borne by the Christian wife of the 7th-century Sasanian emperor Khosrow II. Her story appears in the 10th-century Persian epic the Shahnameh and in Khosrow and Shirin by the 12th-century poet Nizami Ganjavi.
20062006: 16 births, rank #7,482
2007: 9 births, rank #11,630
2008: 13 births, rank #8,965
2009: 7 births, rank #13,704
2010: 11 births, rank #9,790
20112011: 9 births, rank #11,181
2012: 10 births, rank #10,429
2013: 16 births, rank #7,372
2014: 13 births, rank #8,485
2015: 23 births, rank #5,653
20162016: 14 births, rank #7,988
2017: 11 births, rank #9,341
2018: 19 births, rank #6,248
2019: 7 births, rank #12,448
2020: 10 births, rank #9,546
20212021: 5 births, rank #15,251
2022: 15 births, rank #7,281
2023: 10 births, rank #9,616
2024: 12 births, rank #8,443
20252025: 15 births, rank #7,133
In 2025, 15 babies were recorded with the name Shirin, ranking #7,133 among girls.