Earline
Earline was last recorded in 1995, when 5 babies were given it; 16,583 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,420 Americans named Earline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 84.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Earline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Earline mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Earline is “a female given name from English.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Earline?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,082, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
479 babies in 1927, the peak
Earline peaked in 1927, when 479 babies were given it (470 girls, #307 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #14,082 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,550 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,679 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,933 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,523 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,114 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 11 | #6,012 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,060 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,315 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,678 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,120 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,312 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,537 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,700 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,997 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,685 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,652 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,598 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,229 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 72 | #1,276 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,158 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 101 | #1,086 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 106 | #1,043 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 115 | #1,002 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 122 | #979 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 125 | #954 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 140 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 154 | #811 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 136 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 161 | #772 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 203 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 152 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 198 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 256 | #532 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 270 | #499 | 0.15 |
| 1950 | 244 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1949 | 284 | #476 | 0.17 |
| 1948 | 296 | #467 | 0.17 |
| 1947 | 308 | #467 | 0.17 |
| 1946 | 318 | #434 | 0.20 |
| 1945 | 328 | #393 | 0.25 |
| 1944 | 325 | #393 | 0.24 |
| 1943 | 342 | #396 | 0.25 |
| 1942 | 293 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1941 | 369 | #340 | 0.31 |
| 1940 | 355 | #340 | 0.31 |
| 1939 | 326 | #360 | 0.30 |
| 1938 | 352 | #341 | 0.32 |
| 1937 | 339 | #347 | 0.32 |
| 1936 | 373 | #315 | 0.36 |
| 1935 | 411 | #300 | 0.39 |
| 1934 | 425 | #303 | 0.41 |
| 1933 | 416 | #298 | 0.41 |
| 1932 | 454 | #296 | 0.43 |
| 1931 | 361 | #335 | 0.34 |
| 1930 | 442 | #314 | 0.39 |
| 1929 | 431 | #316 | 0.39 |
| 1928 | 466 | #307 | 0.40 |
| 1927 | 470 | #307 | 0.39 |
| 1926 | 460 | #311 | 0.39 |
| 1925 | 449 | #314 | 0.37 |
| 1924 | 428 | #325 | 0.34 |
| 1923 | 372 | #340 | 0.31 |
| 1922 | 347 | #350 | 0.29 |
| 1921 | 331 | #366 | 0.27 |
| 1920 | 332 | #358 | 0.28 |
| 1919 | 310 | #366 | 0.27 |
| 1918 | 260 | #406 | 0.22 |
| 1917 | 231 | #418 | 0.21 |
| 1916 | 221 | #420 | 0.21 |
| 1915 | 159 | #488 | 0.16 |
| 1914 | 157 | #431 | 0.21 |
| 1913 | 120 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1912 | 87 | #518 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 56 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 93 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1909 | 47 | #561 | 0.14 |
| 1908 | 43 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 47 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1906 | 27 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 40 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 26 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 18 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 16 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 18 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 18 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 21 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Earline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Earline has been given almost only to girls: 59 boys in 101 years of records.
Girls and boys named Earline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Earline, and how old are they?
5,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 33% of the 16,583 Americans ever recorded as Earline. The median Earline alive today is 77 years old; half are between 68 and 84.
The 2020 Census counted 5,451 people named Earline (5,436 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,210 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,890 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,750 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 579 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Earline born?
The states with the most babies named Earline are Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 2,088 | not ranked | 5.9× |
| Mississippi | 1,820 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Texas | 1,579 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 1,504 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| South Carolina | 1,278 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Tennessee | 896 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 708 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 612 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 608 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Missouri | 432 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Earline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Earline is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 5.9 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 girls’ 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 Earline 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 35,203 babies since 1880, Earline is the most given (47% 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 Earline
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 Earline and names like it
- Compare Earline and EarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEarline peaked in 1927.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Earline since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Earline: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Earline.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Earline alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.