Shirrel
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shirrel has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% boys, 37% girls all-time.
Babies named Shirrel, 1937
1 in 426,000
Shirrel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shirrel over time
In 1965, Shirrel went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shirrel?
Shirrel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1937, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1937
- 1 in 426,000
- 5 of 2,130,660 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1937
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 295,373 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shirrel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1937 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 295,373 children born in 1937 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shirrel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shirrels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shirrel was born before 1935 — so the typical Shirrel is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Shirrel 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 1935 (7)
- Years since peak
- 90
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shirrel
Shirrel is not the most common spelling — Shirley is, with 92.4% against Shirrel's 0.16%.
Shirrel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shirrel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shirrel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.