Shelley
English
Alternative forms
- (as a name) Shelly
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English, meaning "clearing on a bank".
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a Romantic poet.
- A habitational surname from Old English
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly before 1930 usage.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle.
- A village in Essex, England.
- A village in Suffolk, England.
- A village in North Yorkshire, England.
Further reading
- “Shelley”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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