Earlee — unisex name
134 babies named Earlee in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Earlee was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Earlee in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Earlee
The Social Security Administration has registered 134 babies named Earlee between 1914 and 1946, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Earlee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1946. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Earlee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 44 additional births since 1915.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Earlee performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 72 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Earlee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Earlee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Earlee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 134 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Earlee at a glance
Last recorded 1946Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Earlee popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1946–1914
- Peak year (1923)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1946.
134 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 18 births in a single year.
Earlee popularity over time — boys
44 total births recorded since 1915 (Earlee as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Earlee accounts for 25% of total recorded use across both genders.
Earlee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 72 births that decade — 54% of Earlee's all-time total
Earlee decade highlights
- Peak decade 72 births
- Runner-up 32 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Earlee's strongest decade
72 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Earlee by state
Where Earlee concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Arkansas | | 11 | 8.2% |
11 of 134 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Arkansas 8.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Arkansas accounts for 8.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1914–1946 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.