How rare is the name Earline?

5,451 people in the United States have the first name Earline, about 1 in 55,408. It ranks #3,716 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EARLINE

#3,716

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,451
About
1 in 55,408
This common or more
82.9%
Who bears it

Of the 5,451 people named Earline, 59.1% reported their origin as Black, 36.3% as White and 2.2% 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.

Earline peaked in 1927, when 479 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18891995
Peak year
1927
Births that year
479
In 1995
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 16,583 babies have been given the name since 1889. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Earline by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #592. The largest share of babies named Earline, 41.3%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#3,1215
1890s#2,01662
1900s#1,054290
1910s#7941,694
1920s#6174,100
1930s#5923,938
1940s#7603,224
1950s#1,1981,914
1960s#1,903906
1970s#4,296283
1980s#8,377132
1990s#22,07935
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2731.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4541.3%
Baby boom 1946–6422.2%
Generation X 1965–803.8%
Millennials 1981–960.9%

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 Earline is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Earline has been most common in Mississippi (10×), Louisiana (8.2×), and South Carolina (6.3×), and least common in Ohio (0.05×).

13,907 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 Earline

#3,714 Elwood · 5,454#3,715 Grey · 5,453#3,717 Mellissa · 5,449#3,718 Yesica · 5,448

Spelled almost the same

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

#3,130 Earlene · 7,002#40,711 Earlyn · 182#43,660 Earlena · 161#46,856 Earlyne · 141#53,558 Earlin · 97

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