girls:
285 births since 1889
#5431 (5th percentile)
boys:
11.5k births since 1880
#1072 (77th percentile)
overall:
11.8k births since 1880
#2426 (69th percentile)
The name Earle is the #2,426 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,790 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 68.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,072 (76.6% percentile) for all time with 11,505 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,431 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 285 births since 1889.
Earle has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1889 for girls). Birth data for Earle is available in 127 out of the 135 years between 1880 and 2014 (127 years for boys and 35 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Earle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Earle reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 49.2% percentile (ranked #270) with 334 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 446 births per million (ranked 22.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
For girls, Earle reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #564) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 32 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1947.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Earle".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Earle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Earle is pronounced as erl, which has 1 syllables.
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