Shirley

Meanings

1. An English habitational surname
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.
4. Various places in England:
5. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2141).
6. A suburb of the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3565).
7. A hamlet in Sopley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ1798).
8. A suburb of Southampton, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4013).
9. A suburban town in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, historically in Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP1278).
10. Various places in the United States:
11. A town in Van Buren County, Arkansas.
12. An unincorporated community in Kings County, California.

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Etymology

English place name from Old English sċīr (“county”) + lēah (“meadow”). Equivalent to shire + -ley (“lea”). More at shire, leigh.