Shirley Girl Name

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The name Shirley is of English origin, and means bright meadow. The table below indicates the number of times the name Shirley has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Shirley**
Use of the Name Shirley for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
682,091	102,131	10,119	2,910	1,372	550	238

The table below indicates the number of times the name Shirley has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Shirley**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	671	8	630	10
1881			773	7
1882	670	9	605	11
1883	463	18	517	13
1884	498	18	603	11
1885	555	16	457	17
1886	570	16	446	17
1887	509	20	674	9
1888	442	32	552	14
1889	378	42	548	13
1890	405	40	423	19
1891	428	35	471	15
1892	347	58	537	15
1893	377	52	503	15
1894	407	48	408	22
1895	433	44	357	28
1896	384	55	669	12
1897	372	62	436	20
1898	373	70	569	15
1899	347	74	544	14
1900	320	112	403	32
1901	307	95	721	10
1902	311	104	455	22
1903	309	102	548	17
1904	272	138	443	24
1905	257	162	611	16
1906	234	187	472	23
1907	208	244	633	17
1908	198	283	551	22
1909	203	281	447	33
1910	203	319	597	24
1911	198	362	503	35
1912	198	487	496	64
1913	169	682	406	114
1914	160	908	401	142
1915	162	1,135	408	174
1916	160	1,244	453	154
1917	123	1,799	434	171
1918	97	2,658	442	182
1919	89	3,151	420	195
1920	56	4,715	430	195
1921	44	5,694	404	228
1922	39	6,413	398	229
1923	26	7,930	391	232
1924	19	9,483	412	223
1925	17	10,500	398	225
1926	14	11,757	411	215
1927	9	13,309	380	240
1928	10	14,178	371	248
1929	9	14,584	345	264
1930	11	14,768	339	271
1931	9	14,394	361	241
1932	9	14,476	356	243
1933	9	14,318	373	212
1934	4	22,831	320	287
1935	2	42,331	259	431
1936	2	35,139	277	384
1937	4	26,788	293	336
1938	5	23,765	340	267
1939	5	20,437	372	236
1940	9	17,878	391	214
1941	10	16,932	448	172
1942	12	17,770	432	204
1943	12	17,765	456	187
1944	14	16,307	537	128
1945	14	16,148	498	144
1946	18	17,805	534	145
1947	19	17,633	615	122
1948	20	16,134	803	72
1949	18	17,265	756	83
1950	19	15,877	763	81
1951	27	13,869	804	77
1952	28	12,537	884	64
1953	29	12,150	852	71
1954	33	10,910	910	67
1955	37	9,739
1956	41	9,432
1957	46	8,837	977	61
1958	52	8,091
1959	61	7,288
1960	70	6,411
1961	86	5,627
1962	96	4,875
1963	99	4,387
1964	103	3,967
1965	111	3,379
1966	124	2,914
1967	140	2,522
1968	150	2,147
1969	173	1,866
1970	199	1,629
1971	193	1,585
1972	209	1,338
1973	217	1,161
1974	254	1,008
1975	278	875
1976	276	836
1977	306	779
1978	336	651
1979	347	668
1980	381	601
1981	390	580
1982	387	596
1983	427	506
1984	438	477
1985	443	493
1986	493	434
1987	473	458
1988	493	460
1989	514	457
1990	510	471
1991	517	449
1992	530	448
1993	587	401
1994	594	378
1995	636	343
1996	656	339
1997	661	333
1998	743	292
1999	915	231
2000	850	259
2001	778	304
2002	877	259
2003	791	312
2004	984	238
Totals:		682,091		8,867

During the last 125 years, parents have used Shirley as a girl's name about 98% of the time and less frequently (about 1% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Shirley appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

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