Entry № 9580 · Persian origin

Shirin Shirin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Sweet"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "sweet".

Shirin (شیرین) is the Persian word for "sweet." The romance of Khosrow and Shirin by the 12th-century poet Nizami is one of the great Persian love stories.

Sweet. Nizami's romantic heroine. Nobel laureate Ebadi.

The name in its native script.

شیرین
Transliteration
Shīrīn
Pronunciation
/ ʃiːˈriːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shirin stands.

Shirin does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Shirins before her.

Real people
Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Nobel Peace laureate.
born 1947
Shirin Neshat
Iranian visual artist.
born 1957
In fiction
Shirin
Heroine of Nizami's Khosrow and Shirin.
12th-century epic

Names connected to Shirin.

The number behind Shirin.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shirin reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.