Shirleen
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shirleen has been given to 1,790 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1948, with 82 recorded.
Babies named Shirleen, 2006
1 in 565,000
Shirleen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shirleen?
Shirleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 565,000
- 7 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 272,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,745 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shirleen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,745 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shirleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shirleens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shirleen was born before 1954 — so the typical Shirleen is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 29.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,138
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (526).
Is Shirleen 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1948 (82)
- Years since peak
- 77
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shirleen
Shirleen is not the most common spelling — Shirley is, with 95.6% against Shirleen's 0.25%.
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 Shirleen is used
Across 1910–2025, Shirleen was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 427,662 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 33,333
- 2Utah1 in 50,000
- 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8New Jersey1 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. Shirleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shirleen around the world
Where Shirleen 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.
- South Australia1954–1992#704in 1992
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shirleen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shirleen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shirleen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.