Earle
Earle is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 232nd, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918350 births
- Best rank
- #232in 1894
- Since 1880
- 11,790people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,505 boys have been named Earle in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 350 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 350 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 285 girls have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Earle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 335 | |
| 1890s | 479 | |
| 1900s | 430 | |
| 1910s | 2,210 | |
| 1920s | 2,805 | |
| 1930s | 1,627 | |
| 1940s | 1,345 | |
| 1950s | 1,027 | |
| 1960s | 567 | |
| 1970s | 328 | |
| 1980s | 208 | |
| 1990s | 92 | |
| 2000s | 41 | |
| 2010s | 11 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Earle was the 293rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Earle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elmerpeak 1918
- Homerpeak 1920
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Albinpeak 1919
- Millardpeak 1922
- Ludwigpeak 1916
- Walterpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.