Shirelle
Shirelle was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 711 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shirelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shirelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,003, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1969, the peak
Shirelle peaked in 1969, when 35 girls were given it, #2,166 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #15,003 | 3.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,121 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,157 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,434 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,484 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,619 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,003 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,035 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,245 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,503 | 8.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 13 | #6,227 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,727 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,005 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,966 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,225 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,898 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,747 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,206 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,943 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,647 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,616 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,161 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,390 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,917 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,835 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,613 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,965 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,861 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,013 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,166 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,418 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,619 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,924 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,915 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,809 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,479 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,899 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,740 | 10.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shirelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shirelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shirelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shirelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 666 Americans named Shirelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 40 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 611 people named Shirelle (605 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 673 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,048 babies since 1880, Shirelle is the third most given (8.8% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shirelle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shirelle and names like it
- Compare Shirelle and ShirleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sShirelle peaked in 1969.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shirelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Shirelle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shirelle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.