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Shirel

#8,281 in 2025Girls' name

Song of God

Shirel has been given to 373 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #8,281 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Shirel, 2025

1 in 255,000

Shirel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shirel: meaning, origin, and history

Song of God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shirel means

Shirel means “song of God”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 373 girls were recorded with the name Shirel between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,281 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,852 in 2020 to #8,281 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,291 in 2015 to #8,281 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shirel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,281
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shirel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shirel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shirels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shirel was born before 2010 — so the typical Shirel is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
373
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2000s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Shirel 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
+2,691
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,571
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,010
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.0%
Peak was 2022 (25)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,281
2022

Spellings of Shirel

Shirel is not the most common spelling — Shirley is, with 83.6% against Shirel's 0.05%.

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 Shirel is used

Across 1910–2025, Shirel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 434,725 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Shirel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shirel around the world

Where Shirel 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 & Wales
    2013–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • France
    1992–2025
    #1,935
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2008
    #2,774
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1956–1956
    #540
    in 1956

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.

Shirel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,281
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,571
Best rank ever
#5,281
2022
Peak year
2022
25 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
373
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Shirel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShioriShirinShifaShilahShineShiriShianaShiaraShivyaShizaShianeShirahShifraShikhaTzirelShiffyShiannaShilpaShizueShireeShiahShirrelShireenShirlyn

Sibling names for Shirel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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