This page shows the Shirley (girls) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 1995. Each row below is one year in which Shirley was recorded as a first name for girls in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Shirley's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for girls that year.

The record for Shirley for girls sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Shirley appears in 21 of them, from 1974 to 1995, with 695 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1974, when the table records 135 babies given the name, at rank 64 among all first names for girls that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 1995; years in which the table records no row for Shirley for girls are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 1995. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among girls' first names
19953639
19943629
19923641
19916422
19907388
198911293
198810294
19879323
198615239
198511292
198414256
198322199
198232158
198128181
198050121
197953116
197842128
197755107
19768581
197510173
197413564

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