Sirin
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- si-REEN
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Sirin is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “sweet”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Sirin mean?
Persian: Turkish and Kurdish form of Shirin
“sweet”
Shirin is the heroine of the Persian romance Khosrow and Shirin; in Russian folklore Sirin is a bird with a woman's head.
Is Sirin a girl's or a boy's name?
Sirin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sirin in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Sirin, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 5 girls.
2025 had more girls named Sirin than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Sirin in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Sirin in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 2 | #6,098 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
Names like Sirin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Summer, Zainab, Sumayyah, Yasmin, Erin, Imaan, Aaliyah, Safaa, Rawan, Emaan, Salma
Names related to Sirin
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman, Armaan
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, “Sirin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sirin, updated 20 October 2026.