Sirat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SEE-rat
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,076 for girls
Sirat is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies).
What does Sirat mean?
Arabic: Arabic sirat 'path' or sirat 'character', via Urdu and Punjabi
Can come from Arabic sirat, 'path', as in the straight path of the Qur'an's opening chapter, or from the word for character.
Is Sirat a girl's or a boy's name?
Sirat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sirat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,076th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 20,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 131% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Sirat, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th.
2025 had the most girls named Sirat of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Sirat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 36 girls in the UK were given Sirat or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #920, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.
- Seerat 22
- Sirat 14
In 2021, 70% of the babies named Sirat in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.
Sirat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
Names like Sirat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Rehmat, Ayat, Ayah, Safa, Raya, Aayat, Amal, Sifat, Shiddat, Saanvi, Kudrat, Aadhya
Other spellings of Sirat
Names related to Sirat
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Sirat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sirat, updated 20 October 2026.