Shanley
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shanley has been given to 473 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Shanley, 2023
1 in 552,000
Shanley over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shanley?
Shanley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 267,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shanley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shanleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanley was born before 1995 — so the typical Shanley is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 37.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 473
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (178).
Is Shanley rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (26)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shanley
Shanley is not the most common spelling — Shirley is, with 52.7% against Shanley's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shanley is used
Across 1910–2025, Shanley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shanley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shanley around the world
Where Shanley ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2003#3,594in 2003
- France1999–1999#4,154in 1999
- Canada1991–1993#2,149in 1993
- South Australia1965–2000#727in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shanley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shanley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shanley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.