Shirely

girls:

231 births since 1926

#5485 (4th percentile)

overall:

231 births since 1926

#7508 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shirely".

1926 1969 19261969

Key Statistics

Total Births
231
Peak Births
13
Peak Year
1936
First Recorded
1926
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#561
Current Rank
#762
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Shirely

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Shirely. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.0% confident that Shirely is pronounced as SHIHR-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is SHER-lee, at 26.8% confidence.

SHIHR-lee (2 syllables)
39.0% confidence
SH IH1 R L IY0
SHEAR-lee (2 syllables)
17.1% confidence
SH IY1 R L IY0
SHIRE-lee (2 syllables)
12.2% confidence
SH AY1 R L IY0
shih-REE-lee (3 syllables)
4.9% confidence
SH IH0 R IY1 L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Shirely. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Shirely, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SHAIR-lee (2 syllables)
1 name 989 births
SH EH1 R L IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

SHEH-ruh-lee (3 syllables)
8 names 463 births
SH EH1 R AH0 L IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like SH IH1 R L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.