Shirlyn
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ʃiɾlin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Shirlyn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 40Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 73Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shirlyn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Shirlyn | 44 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Shirlyn | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Shirlyn | 38 |
| US United States | 466 | 1 in 714K | 461 | Shirlyn | 160 |
| KE Kenya | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Shirlyn | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Shirlyn | 39 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Shirlyn | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | 1 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shirlyn?
- In Spanish /ʃiɾlin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Shirlyn a male or female name?
- Shirlyn is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Shirlyn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Shirlyn in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shirlyn. After it come Indonesia, Malaysia, United States and Kenya; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shirlyn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 466 people named Shirlyn in 2020, about 1 in 714 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shirlyn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirlynThe 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, “Shirlyn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.