Shirleen
Shirleen was last recorded in 2006, when 7 babies were given it; 1,790 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Shirleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shirleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shirleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,917, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1948, the peak
Shirleen peaked in 1948, when 82 girls were given it, #965 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #14,917 | 3.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,123 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,212 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,381 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,073 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,924 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,673 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,227 | 3.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,482 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,713 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 9 | #7,204 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,487 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,904 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,054 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,862 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,318 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,896 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,063 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,451 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,296 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,818 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,510 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,655 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,693 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,571 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,614 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,548 | 14.5 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,569 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,632 | 27.2 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,886 | 21.1 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,733 | 23.3 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,776 | 21.4 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,692 | 22.8 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,743 | 21.3 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,512 | 25.7 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,653 | 21.4 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,585 | 23.0 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,517 | 24.9 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,440 | 25.6 |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,342 | 28.8 |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,152 | 37.7 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,311 | 29.1 |
| 1951 | 50 | #1,327 | 27.8 |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,273 | 30.9 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,247 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 82 | #965 | 48.3 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,392 | 25.4 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,463 | 23.5 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,511 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,654 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,892 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,409 | 25.2 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,496 | 23.2 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,545 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,326 | 29.2 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,409 | 26.3 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,298 | 30.1 |
| 1936 | 40 | #1,131 | 38.4 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,302 | 30.5 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,903 | 17.2 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,525 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,628 | 21.6 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,093 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,992 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,647 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,337 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,517 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,670 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shirleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shirleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shirleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shirleen, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 1,790 Americans ever recorded as Shirleen. The median Shirleen alive today is 68 years old; half are between 60 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 1,454 people named Shirleen (1,454 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 145 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 739 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 274 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 22 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,515 babies since 1880, Shirleen is the most given (71% 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 Shirleen
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 Shirleen and names like it
- Compare Shirleen and ShirlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sShirleen peaked in 1948.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shirleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Shirleen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Shirleen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.