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'Siri' sounds like someone's name. 'Cluzee' sounds like the result of a failed marketing meeting.

Useless factoid of the day: Siri is a spin-out from SRI (Stanford Research Institute), which can be pronounced as "Sirree".

Also, "Siri" is Hindi for "head" and comes from the Sanskrit root meaning "radiant". It's a common Hindu female first name.

No its not a common hindu female first name. Its not even a name. The word you are looking for is "Shri"/"Shree"/"Sri" which is used as a prefix for the male name, like Mr., Mrs. etc.

It's not a common name, you're right there. However, it is a name. At least in India. For example, it is a word in the South Indian languages of Kannada and Telugu derived from Shree/Shri (which in turn stands for wealth, prosperity, the goddess Lakshmi, etc). Arrgh, why am I going down this path!

It's certainly not a common name, if even that. I'm Indian, and have never heard of someone called siri. "Shri" is often a part of longer names, though it's almost never used in isolation (I can't recall anyone whose first name was simply Shri), because it is also a word used in the same sense as "Mr." in English.

As for being a word in South Indian languages... it's possible that it's an archaic word, but it's certainly not used commonly, at least in Kannada (which is my first language).

Anyway, my point is that it shouldn't have been there in the wikipedia page as a "common Hindu name", but I should probably be discussing this on the wiki talk page rather than HN. ;-)

If not, then it should be taken off Wikipedia.

"Siri, a common Hindu female name, meaning "Goddess Lakshmi, Wealth, God's gift of love."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri

Besides that, I know several Sikh women whose first name is Siri.

I do agree that Siri and Sri are the same, it's just a different way of spelling it.

Well...they're not Hindu, they're Sikh. Never heard of Siri referred to has a Hindu name, but India is a big country...

Did you check the reference for that?

Wikipedia simply points to a website full of names with no reference as to where they come from or statistics to back up the claim of it being common.

Siri is a name, it's fairly common in Norway where one of the co-founders of the company that built Siri comes from. [Dag Kittlaus]

In this* article Dag says that he was going to call his first child Siri, but it turned out to be a boy.

* http://e24.no/it/norges-ukjente-dollar-multimillionaer/20119...

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