How to write “Shirley” in Korean

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What Korean friends call you

• 셜리야 syeol-li-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 셜리 씨 syeol-li-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Shirley

• 셜리 35 (100%)

Korean labels of 35 people named Shirley on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

Well-known people named Shirley, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Shirley Temple — 셜리 템플
• Shirley MacLaine — 셜리 매클레인
• Shirley Booth — 셜리 부스
• Shirley Bassey — 셜리 베이시

63,124 babies were named Shirley in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 693rd most common name.

Block by block

• 셜 = ㅅ + ㅕ + ㄹ · 8 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅕ 여 (yeo) · 3 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

  Also in 셜: Marshall 마셜

• 리 = ㄹ + ㅣ · 4 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes
  • ㅣ 이 (i) · 1 stroke

  Also in 리: Emily 에밀리 · Christopher 크리스토퍼 · William 윌리엄

셜리 takes 12 strokes in all.

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