Fun Facts About the Name Seerat
- 438 babies named Seerat: U.S. records list 438 babies given the name Seerat from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Seerat Mean?
Seerat comes from the Arabic noun sīra (سِيرَة), meaning "way of life," "conduct," or "character"; it can also mean "biography." The noun is built on the root s-y-r, whose verb sāra means "to travel" or "to go along," so its core sense is a course or manner of proceeding. The Urdu form seerat (سیرت) preserves the final -t of the Arabic construct form and carries the senses "character," "disposition," "conduct," and "life story."
Seerat is not a form of ṣirāṭ (صراط), the Arabic word for "path" or "way," which belongs to a different root. The resemblance between the English spellings Seerat and Sirat is therefore misleading.
Seerat Name History & Origins
The Arabic noun sīra is built on the root s-y-r, "to travel" or "go along." From the idea of a course or way of proceeding, it developed the senses "conduct," "manner of life," and "biography." In Islamic writing it became the usual term for a biographical account, especially sīrat al-nabī, the biography of the Prophet Muhammad; in this construct form the final t is pronounced.
When the word was adopted into Persian and Urdu, that -t became part of the ordinary form, giving seerat (سیرت). In Urdu it means character, nature, conduct, or biography, and it appears in the paired phrase seerat-o-sūrat, "character and appearance." The given name Seerat, used especially for girls in Pakistan and northern India, comes from this noun and keeps its sense of character or conduct.
How Popular is the Name Seerat?
Seerat has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2014. Its best rank was #3,910 in 2014.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #6,080 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2024 | #5,256 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2023 | #4,979 | 27 | 0.0017% |
| 2022 | #5,278 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2021 | #5,071 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2020 | #4,527 | 30 | 0.0019% |
| 2019 | #4,527 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2018 | #5,437 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2017 | #5,163 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2016 | #4,509 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2015 | #4,392 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2014 | #3,910 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2013 | #5,456 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2012 | #5,086 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2011 | #5,901 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2010 | #9,696 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #14,870 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #18,308 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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