Shirlene
Meaning
a modern American elaboration of Shirley (Old English, bright clearing) with the fashionable early-20th-century suffix -lene, as in Darlene
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Shirlene has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
5,897 people · the #2,440 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 34,483 · median age 40
Among people named Shirlene living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Shirlene
Most people given the name Shirlene in the United States were born between 1940 and 1969. The Shirlene you meet today is most often in her 60s or 70s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Shirlene deep dive
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