girls:
336 births since 1937
#5380 (6th percentile)
overall:
336 births since 1937
#7403 (4th percentile)
The name Shirlean is the #7,403 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 336 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,380 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 336 births since 1937.
Shirlean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (first recorded for girls in 1937). Birth data for Shirlean is available in 33 out of the 35 years between 1937 and 1971. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Shirlean reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #755) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shirlean".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shirlean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Shirlean is pronounced as SHER-leen, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sher-LEEN, at 41.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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