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Shirley
Pronounced /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)li/
Rank in 2024
#1,451
Born in 2024
151
Peak year
1935 · #2
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 151 girls were named Shirley, about 1 in every 10,683.
- It peaked in 1935 with 42,365 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 686,246 girls have been named Shirley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Shirley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 4.1Greatest1901–27
- 17.5Silent1928–45
- 5.7Boomers1946–64
- 0.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 84,152 babies, 4.11 per 1,000. Silent: 361,029 babies, 17.47 per 1,000. Boomers: 202,998 babies, 5.67 per 1,000. Gen X: 23,929 babies, 0.94 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,305 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,133 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,876 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
English place name from Old English sċīr (“county”) + lēah (“meadow”). Equivalent to shire + -ley (“lea”). More at shire, leigh. ==== Alternative forms ==== (surname): Sherley, Shurley ==== Proper noun ==== Shirley An English habitational surname (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1920s to the 1950s. Various places in England: A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2141). A suburb of the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3565).
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)li/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Shirley, CC BY-SA 4.0.