How rare is the name Earlene?

7,002 people in the United States have the first name Earlene, about 1 in 43,135. It ranks #3,130 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EARLENE

#3,130

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,002
About
1 in 43,135
This common or more
81.7%
Who bears it

Of the 7,002 people named Earlene, 53.4% reported their origin as White, 40.2% as Black and 2.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Earlene peaked in 1947, when 407 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19012007
Peak year
1947
Births that year
407
In 2007
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 14,170 babies have been given the name since 1901. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Earlene by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #650. The largest share of babies named Earlene, 42.6%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1900s#2,65251
1910s#1,408613
1920s#8602,144
1930s#6503,269
1940s#7233,689
1950s#1,0022,615
1960s#1,6811,143
1970s#3,611362
1980s#6,458196
1990s#14,53983
2000s#47,6555
Greatest Generation 1901–2715.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4542.6%
Baby boom 1946–6434%
Generation X 1965–805.7%
Millennials 1981–961.7%
Generation Z 1997–120.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Earlene is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Earlene has been most common in Mississippi (6×), Arkansas (5.5×), and Oklahoma (4×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.12×).

10,990 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Earlene

#3,128 Pascual · 7,008#3,129 Vanesa · 7,005#3,131 Veda · 7,001#3,132 Le · 7,000

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Earlene, most common first.

#3,716 Earline · 5,451#13,686 Earlean · 877#15,229 Earleen · 758#40,711 Earlyn · 182#43,660 Earlena · 161#46,856 Earlyne · 141#53,558 Earlin · 97

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