Shirl
The girl's name Shirl has been in the national records since 1915, with 1,771 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1983. About 1,300 Shirls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Shirl
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,323 girls and 448 boys in all, and in 1972 the split was 25 to 0.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 22 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,771
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 714th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 1,323 / 448
How old the living Shirls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,771 babies given the name since 1915, about 1,300 are alive — 71 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Shirl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shirl is most concentrated in Utah (11.3×), Maryland (6.4×), Virginia (3.8×), Pennsylvania (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Shirl peaked:
Related names
Shirl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.