Earma
Earma was last recorded in 1966, when 5 babies were given it; 601 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Earma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Earma?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,850, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1938, the peak
Earma peaked in 1938, when 24 girls were given it, #1,561 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #6,850 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,875 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,636 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,625 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,036 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,591 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,637 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,787 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,023 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,956 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 10 | #3,553 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,807 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,245 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,733 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,666 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,286 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,088 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,982 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,094 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,452 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,970 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,648 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,899 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,561 | 21.7 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,784 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,416 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,226 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,326 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,306 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,976 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,294 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,581 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,473 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,216 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,747 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,605 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,405 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,702 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,502 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,828 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,224 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,496 | 11.7 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,689 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,865 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,345 | 12.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,523 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,294 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,199 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,084 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Earma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Earma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Earma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Earma, and how old are they?
An estimated 206 Americans named Earma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 73 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 149 people named Earma (148 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 55,788 babies since 1880, Earma is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Earma (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Earma
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 Earma and names like it
- Compare Earma and ErmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sEarma peaked in 1938.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Earma since 1910.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Earma.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Earma alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.