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Comments for SHIRLEY:
Three other famous bearers of this name, also actresses, were Shirley Booth, Shirley MacLaine and Shirley Jones. MacLaine and Jones were named Shirley after Shirley Temple.-- alberto 2/22/2005
Due to the popularity, and high profile of the name Shirley in the 1920s and 1930s, there exist in some countries "Shirley Clubs" for women named Shirley. Most of these women incorrectly believe that they were named after Shirley Temple: the name was already very popular when Temple was born, and many of the "Shirley Club" members were born too early to have been named after Temple.-- Anonymous User 12/15/2005
"Laverne and Shirley" was the name of a sitcom in the '70's. It was a spin-off of "Happy Days."-- breakofday 12/16/2005
Dame Shirley Bassey is a Welsh-born singer, perhaps best-known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).
Shirley Valentine is a play by Willy Russell, adapted into a movie starring Pauline Collins.-- Anonymous User 12/20/2005
I love this name. Well, child actress and former ambassador to (former) Czechoslovakia and an African Country (I forgot the name) is Shirley Temple.-- Lakota_so_italian 1/14/2006
Anne Shirley = Anne of Green Gables is a fictional famous bearer, who named one of her daughters Shirley.-- Anonymous User 1/23/2006
Anne Shirley of the Green Gables named her SON Shirley.-- Kris-tine 4/10/2006
I'll always associate this name with the movie Airplane:
"Surely, you can't be serious?"
"I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley."-- Anonymous User 6/18/2006
Shirley Schmidt is a lawyer on Boston Legal (played by Candice Bergen).-- MusicRat 7/23/2006
Did you know that there are drinks called shirley temples! I guess that is a famous bearer!-- emiliana94 9/1/2006
Shirley Manson is the lead singer of Garbage.-- mymymetrocard 1/21/2007
This name was only ever really used in a masculine format until Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Shirley.' Before that, it was pretty much unheard of for a woman to bear this name.-- Surreal 1/22/2007
Shirley Ardell Mason is the real name of Sybil Isabel Dorsett, the woman with the worst case of multiple personality disorder.-- Anonymous User 6/10/2007
Shirley is the first name of a British singer Skye. Former singer of triphop band Morcheeba.-- Karcoolka 6/26/2007
A famous bearer is Swedish singer Shirley Clamp.-- Anonymous User 9/5/2007
Shirley Crabtree, the English wrestler better known as 'Big Daddy', was a rare modern-day male bearer of this name.-- Tytan 3/10/2008
This name is utterly unimaginable as a male name to me. I used to think this was sort of a cute name, but it sounds hopelessly old-fashioned and even grandmotherly to me despite being the name of Shirley Manson, the singer from Garbage. On the other hand, it sounds very child-like, and the -ey ending really does make names youthful, so this sounds like the name of a child in the 1950s or earlier. I don't really like the sound of this name anymore, as it sounds somewhat harsh with the long schwa sound. Besides, I don't really like Shirley Manson much.-- slight night shiver 5/7/2008
"Surely you can't be serious!"
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
--from Airplane-- erb816 3/17/2009
I like this name, but I find it very badly dated. Still, at least it sounds more mature and feminine than some other -ley names, such as Hailey and Kayley.-- bananarama 11/19/2009
'Shirley' Strahan male lead singer of the Australian rock band 'Skyhooks' now sadly deceased.-- Anton 3/9/2010
One (in)famous bearer of this name is Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of Fred Phelps. Do you really want to give your daughter the same name as a woman who pickets military funerals.-- Anonymous User 3/24/2010
Shirley Fenette is one of the characters from the popular mecha anime "Code Geass".-- Anonymous User 6/23/2010
Pretty name. It's a bit of a shame that it's not very common now.-- Hushpuppy 9/30/2011
Model Sara Dylan's birth name was Shirley. She changed it to Sara because her first husband said he couldn't be married to a woman named Shirley. She later married Bob Dylan.-- Anonymous User 10/28/2011
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