Shirel — #10382 US girls' name
360 babies named Shirel in U.S. Social Security records since 1954, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 41% of names given to girls today.
37% of everyone ever named Shirel was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Shirel in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shirel
The Social Security Administration has registered 360 babies named Shirel between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shirel currently holds the #10382 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shirel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 133 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shirel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 41 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Shirel in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shirel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 360 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Shirel at a glance
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Current rank
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Shirel popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1954
- Peak year (2022)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 71 years of records
Currently ranks #10382 among girls.
360 total births across 71 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 25 births in a single year.
Shirel by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 133 births that decade — 37% of Shirel's all-time total
Shirel decade highlights
- Peak decade 133 births
- Runner-up 106 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Shirel's strongest decade
133 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Shirel by state
Where Shirel concentrates geographically — total births since 1954
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 41 | 11.4% |
| #2 | California | | 25 | 6.9% |
| #3 | Florida | | 12 | 3.3% |
41 of 360 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 11.4% of nationwide
- California 6.9% of nationwide
- Florida 3.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 11.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1954–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.