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Shirley

/ˈʃɜː(ɹ)li/ · name

Meaning

  1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  2. An English habitational surname
  3. A suburb of the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3565).
  4. A suburb of Southampton, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4013).
  5. surely
  6. A hamlet in Sopley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ1798).
  7. Various places in England:
  8. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2141).
  9. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Etymology / origin

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

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