Girl
Shirley
Shirley is a girl's name, a household name, that was at its most popular in the 1930s and is rarely chosen now.
EnglishFrom the bright clearing
Old EnglishFrom the bright meadow, once mainly a boy's name
Births by decade
1900s
1,926
1910s
13,999
1920s
100,902
1930s
232,266
1940s
173,246
1950s
109,415
1960s
38,382
1970s
10,620
1980s
5,125
1990s
3,701
2000s
2,730
2010s
1,450
Peaked in the 1930s · 693,762 total U.S. births since 1900