Shyra
Feminine · “A song”
Shyra respells a Hebrew word with a letter Hebrew does not have. The word means a song, and it names one of the oldest pieces of poetry in the Bible.
How old is the name Shyra?
Shyra first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Shyra alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 800 people named Shyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shyra most popular?
Shyra peaked in 1985, reaching #2484 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Shira to Shyra
The story of Shyra
The Song at the Sea — the poem sung after the crossing, in the middle of Exodus — is called by this word, and it is among the oldest Hebrew anybody can date: the grammar in it is archaic enough that scholars read it as centuries older than the prose around it, a piece of very early poetry embedded in a later narrative like a fossil in rock. Hebrew liturgy still sets it apart on the page, written in a distinctive brickwork pattern that no other passage gets. A name meaning song carries that rather than anything about singing pleasantly, which is a better inheritance than most name books manage to report.
Meaning
A song
The Hebrew word shira means a song, specifically a sung poem rather than a tune. The y in this spelling is an English decoration; Hebrew has no such letter and the vowel it replaces is written differently or not at all.
How the name formed
- Shira
- Shyra
Related forms: Shira
Pronouncing Shyra
SHEER-uh
Two syllables, stress at the front. The y is said as a long e, exactly as the i in the Hebrew spelling.
Nicknames for Shyra
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1962
- Most girls named
- 199447 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2484reached in 1985
- Change vs 2023
- +66.7%10 in 2024, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shyra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shira in Hebrew — same name
Shyras among us
people named Shyra are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shyra sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, short and genuinely attractive.
- It is read correctly on sight in spite of the y.
- It is used across Israel and in Jewish families everywhere.
- Shira is the standard spelling and hers will be corrected to it.
- The front of this spelling reads as the English word shy.
- The y is a decoration that the source language has no equivalent for.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shyras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Shyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shyra in 2025?
- Shyra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Shyra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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