Shelley

  1. Proper noun.  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a Romantic poet.
  2. Proper noun.  (surname, habitational) .
  3. Proper noun.  (given name, male) , transferred use of the surname, mostly before 1930.
  4. Proper noun.  (given name, female) used since the 1930s, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle.

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