Shirley
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#1,586
down −131 places
2025 births
133
down −18 births
All-time births
686,383
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1935
- 42,366 births
- Best rank
- #2
- in 1935
- First recorded
- 1880
- #671 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1942
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 193542,366#2Peak
- 193635,161#2
- 193726,823#4
- 193823,766#5
- 193422,841#4
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2 in 1935 · peak births 42,366 in 1935
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
9,551 boys · 686,383 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Shirley has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.