Earnie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Earnie

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,180 babies named Earnie between 1902 and 1997, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Earnie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 34 babies received it in a single year. Earnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 326 additional births since 1903.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Earnie performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 227 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Earnie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 51 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Earnie in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Earnie 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 1,180 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.