Shirly
Shirly is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193631 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1911
- 1,069people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,042 girls have been named Shirly in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1936, with 31 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 31 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1940s alone account for 21%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 27 boys have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shirly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 22 | |
| 1920s | 92 | |
| 1930s | 193 | |
| 1940s | 214 | |
| 1950s | 168 | |
| 1960s | 130 | |
| 1970s | 55 | |
| 1980s | 35 | |
| 1990s | 46 | |
| 2000s | 70 | |
| 2010s | 17 |
In 1936, its biggest year
Shirly was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1936 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1936.
Names that rose and fell with Shirly
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maryloupeak 1942
- Rosemariepeak 1936
- Marlinepeak 1935
- Carlenepeak 1955
- Marylinpeak 1943
- Beverlypeak 1953
- Johannepeak 1939
- Barbarapeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.