Shirleyann
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shirleyann has been given to 576 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1935, with 59 recorded.
Babies named Shirleyann, 2016
1 in 524,000
Shirleyann 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shirleyann?
Shirleyann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 524,000
- 7 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 253,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shirleyann sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shirleyann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shirleyanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shirleyann was born before 1940 — so the typical Shirleyann is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 38.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 101
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (222).
Is Shirleyann 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1935 (59)
- Years since peak
- 90
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Where Shirleyann is used
Across 1910–2025, Shirleyann was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 548,677 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 100,000
- 2Minnesota1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 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. Shirleyann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shirleyann around the world
Where Shirleyann 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.
- Scotland1979–1984#547in 1984
- South Australia1973–1973#475in 1973
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shirleyann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shirleyann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shirleyann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.