Shirly
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ʃɚli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shirly is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 33rd most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 63K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 485as Shirley
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 590as Shirley
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shirly itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #260 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 560 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
360,153 named Shirley, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shirley in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more and Shïrlëy in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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
(measured from records)Shirly 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 | #114 | 360,153as Shirley | 1 in 924 | 359K | Shirley | 560 |
| GB United Kingdom | #124 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | 32 | Shirley | 251 |
| PH Philippines | #199 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Shirley | 136 |
| IT Italy | #223 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 985 | 1 | Shirley | 59 |
| EG Egypt | #665 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Shirley | 30 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 29,001as Shirley | 1 in 583 | 29K | Shïrlëy | 42 |
| SG Singapore | #33 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 485 | — | Shirley | 120 |
| NO Norway | — | 8,256as Siri | 1 in 662 | 28K | Shirley | 28 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8,232as Shirley | 1 in 619 | 8.2K | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | #833 | 276 | 1 in 63K | 4.3K | Shirley | 107 |
360,153 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)- 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).
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,865 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 402 | — |
| 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 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #6,865 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 17 | #6,376 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #26,249 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1936 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 1 | #22,056 |
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
- How do you pronounce Shirly?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɚli/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shirly a male or female name?
- Shirly is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Shirly have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 360 thousand people named Shirley, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shirly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shirly is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 63 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shirly?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 276 people named Shirly, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Shirly compared with other names?
- In the United States, Shirly is the 114th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shirly?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirlyThe 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, “Shirly” — the 114th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.