Shirley

19 variations

girls:

698k births since 1880

#44 (99th percentile)

boys:

9.9k births since 1880

#1051 (73rd percentile)

overall:

707.9k births since 1880

#99 (98th percentile)

Popularity of Shirley's 19 Variations

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the 19 variations of "Shirley". These 19 different ways to spell Shirley have been grouped together based on pronunciation by a model that updates daily in response to your feedback.

1880 2023 18802023

This table provides detailed name popularity stats for 19 spelling variations of Shirley based on Social Security card applications in the United States. Alternate spellings are only included if they were used at least 5 times in a single year.

This table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.

686.1k
42.4k
1935
1880
99.8%
14.0%
#2
#815
9,551
435
1935
1880
53.2%
#184
5,704
340
1935
1915
44.5%
#320
1,288
60
1935
1911
9.6%
#411
1,238
30
1947
1910
3.7%
0.2%
#408
#945
1,042
31
1936
1911
4.6%
#411
1,031
50
2008
1952
4.6%
2.5%
#690
#923
989
46
1966
1943
5.5%
#605
264
17
1936
1915
2.3%
#499
231
13
1936
1926
1.4%
#561
219
13
1947
1915
1.2%
#559
104
11
1963
1936
0.8%
#567
27
9
1919
1918
0.7%
#518
24
7
1926
1926
0.3%
#567
22
7
1949
1935
0.3%
#576
16
6
1923
1920
0.2%
#521
15
5
1936
1922
0.0%
#569
11
6
1928
1928
0.2%
#576
10
5
1959
1959
0.0%
#767
6
6
1937
1937
0.2%
#581
5
5
1958
1958
0.0%
#765
5
5
2006
2006
0.0%
#966
5
5
1929
1929
0.0%
#531

The popularity percentiles and rank data in the table above are computed for each spelling variation individually, compared against all other individual spellings. This is different from the header on this page and our ranking pages, which compare popularity of the grouped spellings as a whole.

Similar Names

Similar-Sounding Names

These names sound similar to Shirley. This list excludes other spelling variations of Shirley, which are listed in the table above.

All Spelling Variations of Shirley

The 19 different ways to spell Shirley, sorted by popularity, are Shirley, Shirlee, Sherley, Shirlie, Shirly, Sherly, Cherly, Shirely, Sherlie, Shriley, Sherlee, Shirli, Shurley, Shyrlee, Shirlye, Sherli, Shirleye, Chirley, and Sherlly.

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