girls:
373 births since 1891
#5343 (6th percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1880
#1950 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1880
#4151 (46th percentile)
The name Early is the #4,151 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,352 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 46.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,950 (57.5% percentile) for all time with 3,979 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,343 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 373 births since 1891.
Early has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1891 for girls). Birth data for Early is available in 128 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (127 years for boys and 46 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 Early has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Early reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 15.4% percentile (ranked #456) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 271 births per million (ranked 12.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Early reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #594) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Early".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Early. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Early is pronounced as ER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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