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The first name 
Shirly

Shirly is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Shirly – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Shirly has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Shirly. That means that a girl named Shirly is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shirly.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Shirly

Shirly -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Shirly your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Shirly never ranked higher than position 1,087 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Shirly. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1936 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Shirly because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Shirly was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

2022 - looking for Shirly?

As in the last century, Shirly still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Shirly who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.

Shirly -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Shirly is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Shirly can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Shirly. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Shirly living in one state or another (if your name is Shirly and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Shirly is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all female residents are named Shirly – that’s just one in 2,982,583! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 women with that name. So, if your name is Shirly, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Shirly has 6 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.

With six letters, the name Shirly is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.

Other names with 
S, h, i, r, l and y

If you take all the letters in the name Shirly – S, h, i, r, l and y – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Shiryl.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Shirly

If your name is Shirly and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Shirly

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shirly, you can simply say:

Sun

Hat

Igloo

Rocket

Lion

Yoyo

This is how the name Shirly is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Shirly in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Shirly

Shirly

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Shirly

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Shirly is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
H
I
R
L
Y

Have you ever waved the name Shirly

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
H
I
R
L
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shirly sounds like this: