Shirly
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shirly is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- ECEcuador1 in 583◐
- SGSingapore1 in 615
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 653
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈458K ●
- #498 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 496 ●
- 1 in 583 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
5.4M records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shirley in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 20 more and שירלי in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #111 | 358,593 | 4.3M rec. | 1 in 928 | 359K | Shirley | 496 |
| GB United Kingdom | #107 | 316,385 | 313K rec. | — | listed | Shirley | 196 |
| AU Australia | #208 | 107,763 | 102K rec. | — | 82 | Shirley | 214 |
| CA Canada | #120 | 103,925 | 106K rec. | — | 2 | Shirley | 196 |
| PH Philippines | #208 | 94,622 | 90K rec. | — | — | Shirley | 128 |
| BR Brazil | — | 42,827△ | 565 rec. | 1 in 4.9K | 43K | Shirley | 50 |
| IL Israel | #298 | 38,446 | 50K rec. | — | 535 | שירלי | 78 |
| IT Italy | #258 | 33,748 | 35K rec. | — | 1 | Shirley | 58 |
| EC Ecuador | #365 | 29,001△ | 708 rec. | 1 in 583 | 29K | Shirley | 43 |
| SG Singapore | #18 | 17,491 | 18K rec. | — | — | Shirley | 115 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10,123△ | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 1K | 10K | Shirley | 50 |
| EG Egypt | #530 | 9,301 | 9.5K rec. | — | — | Shirley | 26 |
Roughly 359K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 928). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English35K43%
- Spanish20K25%
- Portuguese9.7K12%
- Indonesian2.8K3%
- 1.8K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 35,370 | 43% |
| Spanish | 20,403 | 25% |
| Portuguese | 9,664 | 12% |
| Indonesian | 2,798 | 3% |
| 1,814 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1918 | 6 |
| 1919 | 9 |
| 1920 | 7 |
| 1922 | 8 |
| 1923 | 8 |
| 1924 | 11 |
| 1925 | 10 |
| 1926 | 8 |
| 1927 | 12 |
| 1928 | 12 |
| 1929 | 16 |
| 1930 | 10 |
| 1931 | 11 |
| 1932 | 9 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 20 |
| 1935 | 27 |
| 1936 | 31 |
| 1937 | 26 |
| 1938 | 23 |
| 1939 | 26 |
| 1940 | 22 |
| 1941 | 21 |
| 1942 | 25 |
| 1943 | 20 |
| 1944 | 16 |
| 1945 | 19 |
| 1946 | 24 |
| 1947 | 24 |
| 1948 | 20 |
| 1949 | 23 |
| 1950 | 20 |
| 1951 | 17 |
| 1952 | 16 |
| 1953 | 18 |
| 1954 | 19 |
| 1955 | 20 |
| 1956 | 12 |
| 1957 | 16 |
| 1958 | 14 |
| 1959 | 16 |
| 1960 | 18 |
| 1961 | 17 |
| 1962 | 19 |
| 1963 | 11 |
| 1964 | 23 |
| 1965 | 13 |
| 1966 | 12 |
| 1967 | 6 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2016 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 86 years between 1911–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Shirly Bar Amotzb. 1974ILjewellery designer
- Shirly Laubb. 1974BEviolinist
- Shirly Berkovitzb. 1977ILIsraeli film director and producer
- Shirly Brenerb. 1978ILIsraeli actress
- Shirly Pintob. 1989ILIsraeli politician and citizens' rights activist
- Shirly Karvinenb. 1992FIFinnish beauty pageant contestant
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 41 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,865 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 629 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 624 | #11,413 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 573 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 571 | #6,763 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 542 | #13,611 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 478 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 402 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 307 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 276 | #2,947 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 233 | #5,013 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 171 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 325 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shirly?
- We estimate roughly 458 thousand people bear Shirly (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shirly have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 359 thousand people bear Shirly in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled shirley.
- Where is Shirly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shirly is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 583 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Shirly compared with other names?
- In the United States, Shirly is the 111th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Shirly a male or female name?
- Shirly is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirlyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shirly” — the 111th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.