Shirlie
Shirlie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 895th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193560 births
- Best rank
- #895in 1935
- Since 1911
- 1,288people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,288 girls have been named Shirlie in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 60 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 60 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1935, its biggest year
Shirlie was the 895th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1935 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Shirlie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Margypeak 1929
- Shirleepeak 1935
- Willenepeak 1929
- Bettypeak 1930
- Bettyloupeak 1927
- Mardellpeak 1932
- Ardycepeak 1936
- Verlinepeak 1933
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.