Entry № 9764 · Scandinavian origin

Siri Siri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEER-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scandinavian
Meaning
"Beautiful victory (Apple's Siri; Siri Hustvedt, author)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "beautiful victory (apple's siri; siri hustvedt, author)".

Siri is a Scandinavian short form of Sigrid — from the Old Norse sigr ("victory") + fríðr ("beautiful"). Siri Tollerød (born 1989) — Norwegian model. Siri Pinter — wife of Carson Daly. The original "Siri" is the lake in Norway from which the name derives. The name's surge after 2011 is among the most-documented cases of brand-influenced naming in modern US statistics.

Beautiful victory (Apple's Siri; Siri Hustvedt, author) — a Scandinavian name.

The name in its native script.

Siri
Transliteration
Siri
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪər.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Siri stands.

Siri 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.

Siris before her.

Real people
Siri Hustvedt
American novelist.
born 1955
Siri Tollerød
Norwegian model.
born 1989
Siri Lindley
American triathlete.
born 1969
In fiction
Siri
Apple's voice assistant.
2011

Names connected to Siri.

The number behind Siri.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Siri reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.