girls:
14.2k births since 1901
#1294 (77th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1931
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
14.2k births since 1901
#2203 (72nd percentile)
The name Earlene is the #2,203 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,170 recorded births since 1901. This represents the 71.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,294 (77.4% percentile) for all time with 14,165 births since 1901. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1931.
Earlene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1901 (1901 for girls and 1931 for boys). Birth data for Earlene is available in 97 out of the 107 years between 1901 and 2007 (97 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Earlene has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Earlene reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 48.5% percentile (ranked #304) with 340 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 340 births per million (ranked 48.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
For boys, Earlene reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #520) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1931.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Earlene".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Earlene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.9% confident that Earlene is pronounced as ER-leen, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ER-LEEN, at 17.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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