How Many People Are Named Shirlee?
people named Shirlee are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 153,818 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,714 babies named Shirlee in Social Security records from 1915 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
340 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of SHIRLEY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Shirlee in English. Counting Shirlee and these spellings together, about 3,090 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Shirlee in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shirlee alive today is about 73 years old, and 85% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 66 and 83 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shirlee first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 1935, to 340 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Shirlee has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #347, in 1935.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #347 (1935) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #504 in the 1930s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shirlee alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shirlee were born in California than in any other state: about 249 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shirlee was given 6.6 times as often in Utah, 3.8 times in Washington and 3.6 times in California.
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