Earline
Earline is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 296th, in 1932.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1927470 births
- Best rank
- #296in 1932
- Since 1889
- 16,524people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,524 girls have been named Earline in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 470 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 470 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Earline | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 62 | |
| 1900s | 290 | |
| 1910s | 1,694 | |
| 1920s | 4,086 | |
| 1930s | 3,899 | |
| 1940s | 3,218 | |
| 1950s | 1,914 | |
| 1960s | 906 | |
| 1970s | 283 | |
| 1980s | 132 | |
| 1990s | 35 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Earline was the 307th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Earline
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eloispeak 1935
- Erlenepeak 1930
- Dorthypeak 1927
- Geraldinepeak 1930
- Loispeak 1927
- Jeanpeak 1927
- Loycepeak 1933
- Melbapeak 1924
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.