Shir
From Hebrew, where the word behind it means "song": the same word that opens the Song of Songs. In Poland it stays rare, given now and then to a handful of girls, so meeting one here would stick with you.
Shir Pronunciation
What Shir means
Where Shir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shir comes from Hebrew, where the word שיר means song. In modern Israel it belongs to women and men alike, a single form with no diminutive attached. It carries no nickname. The name reaches a child whole, and there is nothing in it to shorten.
That same word opens Shir HaShirim, the Song of Songs, a biblical book read in synagogue during Passover. The sound sits inside one of the oldest love poems in Hebrew. A child named Shir is named after the thing itself, the song, rather than after a singer or a saint.
On a Polish school register the name is easy to miss, four letters with no ogonek and no name-day beside it. Shir has no imieniny of its own here, because it entered from a different tradition. What stays constant is the meaning under it: pieśń, song.
How many people are named Shir
1 in 141785 women in Poland is named Shir. 177 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2396 among female names.
Shir's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Shir as a middle name
Shir is a first name for 177 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3105th, between Shelly (7) and Sia (7).
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#3103 Sewera7
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#3104 Shelly7
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#3105 Shir7
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#3106 Sia7
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#3107 Silena7