Earlene
Earlene is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 315th, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1947407 births
- Best rank
- #315in 1938
- Since 1901
- 14,165people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,165 girls have been named Earlene in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 407 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 407 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1940s alone account for 26%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Earlene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 51 | |
| 1910s | 613 | |
| 1920s | 2,144 | |
| 1930s | 3,264 | |
| 1940s | 3,689 | |
| 1950s | 2,615 | |
| 1960s | 1,143 | |
| 1970s | 362 | |
| 1980s | 196 | |
| 1990s | 83 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Earlene was the 401st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Earlene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donnispeak 1948
- Delorispeak 1947
- Earnestinepeak 1944
- Neldapeak 1938
- Phyllispeak 1947
- Nancyepeak 1944
- Georgenepeak 1947
- Raymapeak 1947
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.