Name Group Shirley

Group info:

Meaning/translation:	bright clearing
Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin:	from a family name that derives from a place name with the meaning bright clearing (with several places carrying this name)
	only used as a female given name since 1849 when Charlotte Brontë used the name in her novel Shirley
Words:	scir = bright Old English
	leah = the wood (in the sense of forest), the clearing (open place within a wood), the meadow Old English
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	10:Shirley England+Wales 1934

Name variants:

1 female name variant, sorted by name and gender

Name	Languages of Use
Shirley	English