girls:
1k births since 1911
#4674 (18th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1918
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1911
#6670 (14th percentile)
The name Shirly is the #6,670 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,069 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 13.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,674 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 1,042 births since 1911. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1918.
Shirly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for girls and 1918 for boys). Birth data for Shirly is available in 86 out of the 106 years between 1911 and 2016 (84 years for girls and 4 years for boys). 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.
The name Shirly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shirly reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #543) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 29 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Shirly reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #531) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shirly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shirly is pronounced as SHER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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