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Beverly & Shirley
I met two sisters today named Beverly and Shirley - Beverly's 12 and Shirley's 14. A lot of people (at least a lot I've talked to, or seen on here) consider these names old-fashioned. I think they're both cute, especially Shirley, although I don't think I'd use either - they're not that great to me. I was just curious about your opinions of them.

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I want to like Shirley, because I like Shirley Temple, and because I'm a big Anne of Green Gables fan (Anne Shirley), but I can't warm to it as a first name for girls. I think it could make a comeback, but not quite yet.
It also makes me think of Shirley from "Laverne & Shirley" and how Laverne always called her "Shirl". And the joke, "Shirley you jest."
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I like Shirley. It's a family name for me but I doubt I would ever use it.
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Shirley sounds nice and warm. I wouldn't use it but the name has the same feel that Alice gives me and I like that. I don't like Beverly so much, but it's not awful either.
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I would find it very refreshing to meet sisters with these names (though the similar -lee endings bother me :-/). I kind of like Beverly and I like Shirley quite a bit--but mainly because it's my mother's fn. :)
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I like Beverly and know two teenagers with this name, so it doesn't sound old to me.Shirley sounds very old fashioned but is growing on me at the moment. It gives me the impression of elegance for some reason.
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Beverly is much "younger" in England than it is in the USA. The high point for Beverly in the USA was 1937, but it didn't peak in use in England until around 1962. So the average English Beverly is 25 years younger than the average American Beverly.
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Thanks, it's interesting how the popularities peaked in very different years.The Beverlys I know were born in 1989 and 1991.

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I find them both rather old-fashioned and ugly.
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Ditto
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I like Shirley, but I really don't like Beverly...
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I prefer Beverley, and I prefer it on a boy, since the first Beverly / Beverley I knew about was the male child narrator of L.M. Montgomery's "The Story Girl". It's a nice name, although I wouldn't use it myself.Shirley is adorable, and while I can't use it (I have a relative named Shirley, and with a few definite exceptions I don't use family names), I would be very happy to see it on a little girl.
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I like Beverly. Shirley, I think, is a name that won't come back, but maybe I am wrong.
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I don't like Beverly all that much, but I adore Shirley. I know a Shirley who'd be about 14 now, too--but she doesn't have a sister called Beverly. :D I think Shirley is lovely.Array

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