Shira is a Hebrew name meaning song, singing or poetry — a name full of music and celebration. In Jewish tradition, song is deeply tied to praise and joy.
Popular in Israel and beyond, it is bright, lyrical and easy to love, with a lively, uplifting spirit.
For a joyful, melodic child, Shira is a song of a name.
Shira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shira reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.