Shelley

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.

Read more about Shelley.

Famous quotes containing the word shelley:

    If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
    Through the vest which seems to hide them;
    As the radiant lines of morning
    Through the clouds ere they divide them;
    And this atmosphere divinest
    Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinest.
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Obedient to the light
    That shone within his soul, he went,
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)