Name: Shirley
Gender: Female
Usage: Shirley is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Shirley are in general originating from Belgium, France, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Shirley across the world, see Shirl.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Shirley is: Bright grassland, Bright meadow.
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Numerology of the first name Shirley: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Shirley is ranked on the 301st position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 2048100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.029% of the population. The name Shirley has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Shirley for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Shirley may be:
English: transferred use of the surname, which is a local name from any of the various places (in the West Midlands, Derbyshire, Hampshire, and Surrey) named in Old English from the elements scīr county, shire or scīr bright + lēah wood or clearing. It was given by Charlotte Brontë to the heroine of her novel Shirley (1849). According to the novel, her parents had selected the name in prospect of a male child and used it regardless. Shirley had earlier been used as a male name (Charlotte Brontë refers to it as a ‘masculine cognomen’), but this literary influence fixed it firmly as a female name. It was strongly reinforced during the 1930s and 1940s by the popularity of the child film star Shirley Temple (b. 1928).
Variant: Shirlee (rare).
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