Meaning: bright clearing
Gender: female
Languages of use: English
Asteroid: 5624 Shirley, discovered 1991
US 2021 rank: not in the Top 1000
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Meaning/translation: bright clearing
Language of origin: Old English
Info:
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, the clearing, the meadow Old English
Name variants: Shirley