Erline
Erline was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 1,640 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erline?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,296, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1927, the peak
Erline peaked in 1927, when 72 girls were given it, #877 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #17,296 | 2.7 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,957 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,246 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,865 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,726 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,496 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,706 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,658 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,338 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,811 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #6,905 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,867 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,853 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,908 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,630 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,068 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,978 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,386 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,538 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,319 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,604 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,076 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,469 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,453 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,522 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,945 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,112 | 12.7 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,898 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,317 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,370 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,069 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,973 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,051 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,063 | 14.6 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,607 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,025 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,249 | 31.7 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,425 | 25.7 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,326 | 28.7 |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,293 | 30.8 |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,018 | 45.0 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,182 | 34.8 |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,182 | 35.5 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,182 | 35.8 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,166 | 37.3 |
| 1927 | 72 | #877 | 60.4 |
| 1926 | 53 | #1,026 | 44.7 |
| 1925 | 56 | #1,001 | 46.0 |
| 1924 | 66 | #934 | 52.8 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,148 | 37.3 |
| 1922 | 65 | #910 | 54.1 |
| 1921 | 55 | #1,012 | 44.6 |
| 1920 | 61 | #932 | 50.9 |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,082 | 40.7 |
| 1918 | 50 | #1,021 | 43.2 |
| 1917 | 56 | #927 | 51.8 |
| 1916 | 49 | #984 | 46.9 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,177 | 34.6 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,204 | 34.1 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,190 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,497 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 21 | #964 | 50.2 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,133 | 40.4 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,510 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,380 | 29.9 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,116 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,190 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,975 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,663 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,875 | 18.9 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,481 | 26.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,786 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,109 | 38.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Erline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erline, and how old are they?
An estimated 330 Americans named Erline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 69 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 772 people named Erline (768 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 35,025 babies since 1880, Erline is the fourth most given (4.7% 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 Erline
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 Erline and names like it
- Compare Erline and EarlineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sErline peaked in 1927.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erline since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Erline.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Erline alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.