Entry № 9549 · English origin

Shelley Shelley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEL-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Meadow on a ledge (Shelley Winters, two Oscars; Mary Shelley)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "meadow on a ledge (shelley winters, two oscars; mary shelley)".

Shelley Hack — Tiffany Welles on Charlie's Angels. Pete Buttigieg's mother.

Meadow on a ledge.

The name in its native script.

Shelley
Transliteration
Shelley
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɛl.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shelley stands.

Shelley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Shelleys before her.

Real people
Shelley Winters
American Oscar actress.
1920 – 2006
Mary Shelley
English novelist.
1797 – 1851
Shelley Long
American actress (Cheers).
born 1949
Shelley Duvall
American actress.
1949 – 2024
In fiction
Diane Chambers
Cheers.
1982

Names connected to Shelley.

The number behind Shelley.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shelley reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.