Siri
Feminine · “beautiful victory”
Siri is Norwegian, and it is very old. It shortens Sigrid, a Norse compound joining victory to a word meaning beautiful or beloved, and it has been in ordinary use across Norway and Sweden for centuries. In 2011 a technology company gave the name to a piece of software, and everyone under forty now hears that first.
How old is the name Siri?
Siri first appears in US birth records in 1942 — 83 years ago. The typical Siri alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 2,200 people named Siri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Siri most popular?
Siri peaked in 2009, reaching #1792 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 11,416 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
Where it comes from
From Sigríðr to Siri
The story of Siri
The -fríðr names were among the most common women's names of the Norse world, and Sigrid survived the conversion and stayed standard across Scandinavia. Siri broke off as a familiar form and became independent. Its American record begins in 1942 in tiny numbers, rises gently, and — notably — peaked in 2009, two years before the software arrived, so the name was already climbing on its own. What happened after 2011 is a different matter, and it is the main thing anyone choosing it now has to weigh.
Meaning
beautiful victory
From the Old Norse Sigríðr, joining sigr, victory, to fríðr, which means beautiful or beloved and is the same element that ends Astrid and Ingrid. Siri is the Norwegian short form and has been a standing name in its own right for a very long time.
How the name formed
- Sigríðr
- Sigrid
- Siri
Related forms: Siri · Siri · Sigríðr
Pronouncing Siri
SEE-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first, both vowels long and clear. Norwegian and Swedish say it the same way, and so does the software — which is why the collision is total.
Nicknames for Siri
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
- 2011 — Apple launches the Siri assistant
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1942
- Most girls named
- 2009120 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1792reached in 2009
- Change vs 2023
- −14.3%6 in 2025, from 7
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.
Siri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Siri in Norwegian — same name
- Siri in Swedish — same name
- Sigríðr in Old Norse — related form
Siris among us
people named Siri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Siri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Siri
- #13208
- Siri on the 2025 chart
- #948
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Siri went to 6 girls in 2025, but Ciri is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 12, which makes it the 948th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,260 places above the chart.
- Ciri6
- Siri6
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Siri itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jeanett test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Siri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeanett climbed just as high around 1903, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeanett's path sketches the road Siri is walking now.
Siri sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Siri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Siri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a genuine Scandinavian name with an unbroken thousand-year history.
- Four letters, two open syllables, and easy in any accent.
- Sigrid sits behind it as a formal option and is entirely standard abroad.
- The meaning is documented and joins two good words.
- A very widely used piece of software carries the name, and for most Americans that association arrives first and will not go away.
- A child with this name will be spoken to by strangers imitating a machine, which is a real and repeated nuisance.
- In Norway and Sweden none of this applies, which makes the name read completely differently there.
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Frequently asked
- How many Siris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Siri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Siri?
- Siri is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ciri is the more common one — 6 births in 2025 against 6 for Siri.
- How popular is the name Siri in 2025?
- Siri ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Siri?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Siri — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Siri with classmates?
- Siri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
- What explains the spikes and dips on Siri's chart?
- Siri faded after 2011 — Apple launches the Siri assistant.
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