Earlie
Earlie was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 3,592 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Earlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Earlie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,537, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
93 babies in 1922, the peak
Earlie peaked in 1922, when 93 babies were given it (60 boys, #893 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,537 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,275 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 11 | #3,944 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,786 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,674 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,558 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,724 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 11 | #3,640 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,264 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 13 | #3,082 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,114 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,711 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 12 | #2,996 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 10 | #3,211 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 12 | #2,859 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 10 | #3,128 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 8 | #3,395 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 12 | #2,483 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 10 | #2,648 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 14 | #2,163 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 17 | #1,942 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,370 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,873 | 20 | #1,807 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,447 | 20 | #1,823 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,333 | 18 | #1,966 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,885 | 10 | #2,737 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,102 | 22 | #1,730 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,600 | 11 | #2,547 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,325 | 26 | #1,556 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,543 | 26 | #1,544 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,157 | 27 | #1,491 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,394 | 23 | #1,602 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,535 | 20 | #1,726 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,618 | 28 | #1,437 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,331 | 27 | #1,433 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,367 | 28 | #1,374 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,288 | 35 | #1,210 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,083 | 27 | #1,409 |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,513 | 42 | #1,123 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,735 | 34 | #1,199 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,262 | 33 | #1,143 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,496 | 46 | #954 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,756 | 37 | #1,125 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,715 | 40 | #1,075 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,759 | 42 | #991 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,298 | 43 | #982 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,484 | 33 | #1,126 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,487 | 38 | #1,051 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,425 | 40 | #1,002 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,167 | 31 | #1,187 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,490 | 37 | #1,064 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,528 | 35 | #1,121 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,483 | 38 | #1,055 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,395 | 41 | #1,040 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,381 | 42 | #1,040 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,377 | 52 | #929 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,532 | 30 | #1,301 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,479 | 42 | #1,081 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,309 | 55 | #933 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,636 | 42 | #1,099 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,475 | 35 | #1,208 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,619 | 47 | #1,037 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,471 | 58 | #899 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,407 | 60 | #893 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,633 | 52 | #975 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,521 | 53 | #949 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,577 | 52 | #930 |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,548 | 44 | #1,017 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,614 | 48 | #923 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,545 | 42 | #990 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,634 | 54 | #835 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,499 | 35 | #938 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,798 | 28 | #937 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,157 | 18 | #1,104 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,570 | 18 | #761 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,282 | 16 | #759 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,313 | 14 | #767 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,376 | 12 | #792 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,537 | 17 | #621 |
| 1906 | 16 | #928 | 13 | #686 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,183 | 8 | #942 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,711 | 10 | #772 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,084 | 6 | #1,043 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,483 | 10 | #757 |
| 1901 | 14 | #888 | 10 | #692 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,185 | 11 | #798 |
| 1898 | under 5 | 7 | #907 | |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,292 | 7 | #869 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,148 | 10 | #738 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,660 | 10 | #705 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,323 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,025 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,049 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,176 | 8 | #766 |
| 1885 | under 5 | 7 | #783 | |
| 1883 | 6 | #848 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Earlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,592 Americans recorded as Earlie, 37% are girls and 63% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Earlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Earlie, and how old are they?
An estimated 920 Americans named Earlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 921 people named Earlie (364 women and girls, 557 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Earlie born?
The states with the most babies named Earlie are Alabama, North Carolina and Mississippi, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 497 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| North Carolina | 260 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 246 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Texas | 170 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 120 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Arkansas | 44 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Earlie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Earlie is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 5.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Earlie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 21,180 babies since 1880, Earlie is the third most given (17% 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 Earlie
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 Earlie and names like it
- Compare Earlie and EarleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEarlie peaked in 1922.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Earlie since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Earlie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Earlie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.