Shelley
In many baby name books, Shelley is listed as meaning "From the meadow on the ledge" or "clearing on a bank" sometimes truthful and pretty. It is Old English in origin. As with many other names (Ashley, Courtney, etc.), Shelley is today a name given almost exclusively to girls after historically being male. Shelley is also a transferred surname used by those in Essex, Suffolk and Yorkshire, particularly in settlements where a wood/clearing was beside a ledge or hillside.
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Famous quotes containing the word shelley:
“After Shelley, Byron and Scott, you know, one cannot care about other poets.”
—Hellen Shelley (1799–c. 1870)
“Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“the sacred few who could not tame
Their spirits to the conquerors—”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)