Earline

Last seen for girls in 1995 at #13,386 · Last seen for boys in 1940 at #3,130
Given to girls 99.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
1932 · 454 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
16,524
since 1889

Earline over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Earline has never cracked the top 200 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201900peak #296, 1932girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1995#13,3865—
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1993#10,5887—
1992#13,3175—
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1990#10,1937—
1989#10,8476—
1988#5,59814—
1987#6,78810—
1986#5,45913—
1985#6,9559—
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1977#3,76119—
1976#3,28721—
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1969#1,64853—
1968#1,59452—
1967#1,22775—
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1965#1,15685—
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1936#315373#3,5495
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1933#298416#3,2686
1932#296454#2,6389
1931#335361#3,7635
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five girls were named Earline! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1889–1894, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Earline is popular in 1900

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Earline
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1995
  • Biggest jump: 666 spots in 1898 (#1,385 → #719)
  • Biggest drop: 342 spots in 1901 (#885 → #1,227)
Rise & fade · girls
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1932 at #296 (454 births)
  • Births halved by 1953, 21 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 63 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 63 yrs · run 1902–1961
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,351
  • Highest: 1 in 2,351 girls born in 1932 were named Earline (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 351,710 girls born in 1995 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 24.7% of all girls named Earline (4,086) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,279 (1889)#1,279
1890s62#719 (1898)#1,039
1900s290#521 (1907)#738
1910s1,694#366 (1919)#448
1920s4,086#307 (1927)#329
1930s3,899#296 (1932)#321
1940s3,218#340 (1941)#413
1950s1,914#499 (1951)#693
1960s906#954 (1960)#1,196
1970s283#1,681 (1970)#3,016
1980s132#4,005 (1981)#5,893
1990s35#7,430 (1991)#10,983

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Earline in 1900

girls
#885
18 births · 1 in 16,655 girls

Top girls' names in 1900

  1. #1Mary16,705
  2. #2Helen6,342
  3. #3Anna6,114
  4. #4Margaret5,304
  5. #5Ruth4,765
  6. #6Elizabeth4,096
  7. #7Florence3,920
  8. #8Ethel3,896
  9. #9Marie3,856
  10. #10Lillian3,414
  11. #885Earline18
More about 1900

girls

299,784 girls got a published name in 1900; 1 in 16,655 of them was named Earline, which outranked 60.2% of the 2,223 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Earline
  1. #860Tomasa19
  2. #860Violette19
  3. #860Zettie19
  4. #885Earline18
  5. #885Adaline18
  6. #885Adelle18
  7. #885Alicia18
  8. #917Aleen17
  9. #917Almeta17
  10. #917Annabell17

Tied with 31 names at #885; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1899
Risers
  1. ↑ 940Rosia#1,596 → #656
  2. ↑ 763Josiephine#1,596 → #833
  3. ↑ 763Lelar#1,596 → #833
  4. ↑ 736Carmel#1,596 → #860
  5. ↑ 722Gloria#1,278 → #556
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,204Irva#728 → #1,932
  2. ↓ 1,026Dellie#906 → #1,932
  3. ↓ 1,026Marybelle#906 → #1,932
  4. ↓ 949Sada#983 → #1,932
  5. ↓ 949Sidonia#983 → #1,932

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1900 →