Shyrl
Shyrl was last recorded in 1964, when 10 babies were given it; 181 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shyrl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shyrl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,591, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1946, the peak
Shyrl peaked in 1946, when 14 girls were given it, #2,722 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 10 | #4,591 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,227 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,462 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,495 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,117 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,794 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,460 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,864 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,876 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,684 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 6 | #5,664 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,358 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,968 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,222 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,180 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,569 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,221 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,722 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,977 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,348 | 6.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,188 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shyrl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shyrl has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shyrl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shyrl, and how old are they?
An estimated 134 Americans named Shyrl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 66 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Shyrl (217 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Shyrl?
Shyrl is a less common spelling of Shirl: SSA has recorded 181 Shyrl and 1,771 Shirl since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,451 babies since 1880, Shyrl is the third most given (7.4% 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 Shyrl
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 Shyrl and names like it
- Compare Shyrl and ShirlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sShyrl peaked in 1946.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Shyrl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Shyrl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.