girls:
2.2k births since 1881
#3636 (36th percentile)
boys:
289k births since 1880
#125 (97th percentile)
overall:
291.3k births since 1880
#266 (97th percentile)
The name Earl is the #266 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 291,287 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #125 (97.3% percentile) for all time with 289,039 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,636 (36.4% percentile) for all time with 2,248 births since 1881.
Earl has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1881 for girls).
The name Earl has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Earl reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 94.5% percentile (ranked #31) with 5,598 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 7,174 births per million (ranked 91.2% percentile). Despite a low point around 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Earl ranks #853 for boys (6.4% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Earl reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #525) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 63 births per million (ranked 11.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Earl".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Earl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Earl is pronounced as erl, which has 1 syllables.
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