Earleen
Earleen was last recorded in 1981, when 9 babies were given it; 1,481 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Earleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Earleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,944, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1927, the peak
Earleen peaked in 1927, when 53 girls were given it, #1,059 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 9 | #6,944 | 5.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,470 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,620 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,652 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,958 | 4.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,277 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,384 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,178 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,994 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,934 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 13 | #3,673 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,645 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,093 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,399 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,304 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,002 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,234 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,479 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,174 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,993 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,589 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,086 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,813 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,687 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,456 | 23.4 |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,332 | 28.3 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,582 | 20.3 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,307 | 28.0 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,282 | 29.8 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,226 | 31.6 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,497 | 22.2 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,142 | 35.5 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,360 | 26.5 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,557 | 21.9 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,356 | 27.4 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,291 | 29.0 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,461 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,388 | 26.9 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,686 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,111 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,317 | 29.8 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,180 | 34.7 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,430 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,411 | 26.6 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,246 | 32.2 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,600 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 53 | #1,059 | 44.4 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,363 | 28.7 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,276 | 31.2 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,618 | 22.4 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,565 | 23.2 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,378 | 28.3 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,879 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,675 | 20.9 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,551 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,050 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,740 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,280 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,427 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,043 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,318 | 8.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,569 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Earleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Earleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Earleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Earleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 620 Americans named Earleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 68 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 758 people named Earleen (756 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,509 babies since 1880, Earleen is the second most given (33% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Earleen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Margene | 1,692 | |
| Bonna | 1,080 | |
| Charlyne | 1,132 | |
| Wilhelmenia | 1,125 | |
| Earnestine | 16,134 | |
| Berna | 1,466 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Earleen and names like it
- Compare Earleen and EarleanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEarleen peaked in 1927.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Earleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Earleen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Earleen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.