Shiro
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Japanese
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,747 for boys
Shiro is a boys' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies).
What does Shiro mean?
Japanese
A male given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Shiro a girl's or a boy's name?
Shiro is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shiro in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,747th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Shiro, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd.
2025 had the most boys named Shiro of any year since it first appeared, in 2016.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.
Shiro in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 1 | #6,312 |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
Names like Shiro
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Otto, Leo, Arthur, Wilfred, Otis, Chester, Archie, Stanley, Ivo, Louie, Milo, Ollie
Names related to Shiro
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Kyomi, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kiyomi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Shiro: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shiro, updated 20 October 2026.