Shirlene
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Shirley with -lene ending; from OE meaning "bright clearing"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃɝɫin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shirlene is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 36K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 98K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 32K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Shirley with -lene ending; from OE meaning "bright clearing".
Sources 1
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Shirlene 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Shirlene | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,897 | 1 in 36K | 6.1K | Shirlene | 92 |
| US United States | — | 3,391 | 1 in 98K | 3.4K | Shirlene | 81 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Shirlene | 10 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Shirlene | 13 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Shirlene | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | #804 | 135 | 1 in 38K | 135 | Shirlene | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 12 | Shirlene | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 22 | 1 in 34K | 22 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.1K | #2,926 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 6.1K | #1,280 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.9K | #2,440 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 5.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 4.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #5,155 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 887 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shirlene mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Shirley with -lene ending; from OE meaning "bright clearing". Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Shirlene?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɝɫin/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shirlene a male or female name?
- Shirlene 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.
- In which country does Shirlene have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Shirlene in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shirlene.
- How common is the name Shirlene?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,897 people named Shirlene in 2022, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Shirlene compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Shirlene is the 804th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shirlene?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirleneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Shirlene” — the 804th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.