The name Shelley comes from a surname, which is derived from a place name meaning "wood (or clearing) on a slope" in Old English.
Famous bearers
Bearers include Shelley Winters (1920 - 2006), an American actress;
Shelley Duvall (born 1949), an American actress.
Bearers of the surname include Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), a major English Romantic poet;
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851), an English romantic/gothic novelist and the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
