Earley
Earley was last recorded in 1971, when 6 babies were given it; 581 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Earley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Earley?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,553, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1921, the peak
Earley peaked in 1921, when 21 boys were given it, #1,724 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | #4,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,884 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,101 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,607 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 6 | #3,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,173 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,443 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,572 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,531 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,993 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,441 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,257 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,938 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,364 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,056 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,901 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,222 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 17 | #1,965 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,376 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,941 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,101 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,513 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,136 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,130 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 8 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 14 | #560 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 6 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 6 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 8 | #720 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Earley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Earley has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Earley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Earley, and how old are they?
An estimated 120 Americans named Earley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 67 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 188 people named Earley (29 women and girls, 159 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Earley?
Earley is a less common spelling of Early: SSA has recorded 581 Earley and 4,362 Early since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 21,180 babies since 1880, Earley is the fifth most given (2.7% 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 Earley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Earley and names like it
- Compare Earley and EarlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEarley peaked in 1921.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Earley since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Earley.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Earley alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.