Shirlee
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shirlee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 110K
- USUnited States1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
3,017 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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(measured from records)
Shirlee counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,017 | 1 in 110K | 3K | Shirlee | 258 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 364K | — | Shirlee | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 110K | listed | Shirlee | 65 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 107K | listed | Shirlee | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Shirlee | 69 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Shirlee | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Shirlee | 14 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Shirlee | 6 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #235 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Shirlee | 1 |
3,017 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shirlee Emmonsb. 1923USAmerican soprano and voice teacher
- Sara Millerb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican real estate executive and sculptor (1924-2016)
- Shirlee Hunterb. 1939USAmerican musician
- Shirlee Busbeeb. 1941USAmerican novelist
- Shirlee Mathesonb. 1943CACanadian writer
- Shirlee Zaneb. 1959USAmerican politician, member of Sonoma County Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 3 from 2009
- Shirlee Lichtman-SadotUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-5830-3678
- Shirlee WohlUSAmerican epidemiologist
- Shirlee SmithUSAmerican writer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 10 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shirlee a male or female name?
- Shirlee 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.
- What are other forms of the name Shirlee?
- In the etymology graph, Shirley and Sherley are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Shirlee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Shirlee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shirlee.
- How common is the name Shirlee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,017 people named Shirlee in 2020, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
- How common is Shirlee compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Shirlee is the 235th most common given name of 3,327 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shirlee?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirleeThe 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; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Shirlee” — the 235th most common given name in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.