Shirlee
Shirlee is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 347th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1935340 births
- Best rank
- #347in 1935
- Since 1915
- 5,709people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,709 girls have been named Shirlee in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 340 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 340 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1930s alone account for 30%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shirlee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 103 | |
| 1920s | 1,506 | |
| 1930s | 1,685 | |
| 1940s | 1,049 | |
| 1950s | 786 | |
| 1960s | 332 | |
| 1970s | 105 | |
| 1980s | 82 | |
| 1990s | 41 | |
| 2000s | 15 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Shirlee was the 347th 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 Shirlee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shirliepeak 1935
- Wynellpeak 1932
- Bettypeak 1930
- Arlisspeak 1933
- Willenepeak 1929
- Bettyloupeak 1927
- Ardycepeak 1936
- Darlynepeak 1935
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.