Earlie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Earlie

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,263 babies named Earlie between 1885 and 1991, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Earlie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 60 babies received it in a single year. Earlie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,329 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Earlie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 474 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Earlie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 370 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Earlie in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Earlie 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 2,263 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.