girls:
1.3k births since 1883
#4395 (23rd percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1885
#2653 (42nd percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1883
#4568 (41st percentile)
The name Earlie is the #4,568 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,592 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 41.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,653 (42.1% percentile) for all time with 2,263 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #4,395 (23.1% percentile) for all time with 1,329 births since 1883.
Earlie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1885 for boys). Birth data for Earlie is available in 96 out of the 109 years between 1883 and 1991 (92 years for boys and 72 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 Earlie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (63.0% of all recorded births). In 1991, 100.0% of babies named Earlie were boys. Interestingly, until around 1885, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1883 to 1884), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (63.1% boys from 1885 to 1991).
For boys, Earlie reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 10.1% percentile (ranked #491) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 107 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
For girls, Earlie reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #537) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 55 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1963.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Earlie".
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