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I'm afraid that Shalane is probably simply a modern invention blending the sounds of names like Shelley and Charmaine. One of the websites about Ms. McCall claims that she was named after another little girl called Shellayne, and that her own mother deliberately altered the spelling, but the accuracy of that story is unknown.

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Any way, the only "meaning" for Shalane is "20th century invention that some American parents thought sounded pretty."