Shirley (name)

Shirley is a given name and a surname.

Given name

Surname

Shirley
Family name
Meaning habitational name for one who lived in one of the parishes called Shirley in the counties of Derbyshire, Surrey, Hampshire and the West Midlands.
Region of origin England

Shirley is a rather uncommon surname, with pockets of Shirleys living in Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Canada, New Zealand, and parts of Great Britain. A work on the genealogy of the various branches of the Shirley family was published as Stemmata Shirleiana by E. P. Shirley in 1841.

The present generation of the Shirley family is only the most recent to bear a name that dates back to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. Their name comes from having lived in the parish of Shirley found in the counties of Derbyshire, Surrey, Hampshire and the West Midlands.

Shirley is the surname of the title character in Anne of Green Gables, a 1908 novel by Lucy Maude Montgomery about an orphan girl in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.

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