Feminine dossier · first seen 1934

Shirl

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Shirl
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1964

Peak rank proxy

210

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1934Peak 19642024

Peak year

1964

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,323

Shirl has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1964, when 210 girls were named Shirl.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,323 Americans have been named Shirl and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1934.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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