girls:
326 births since 1903
#5390 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1902
#3426 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1902
#6240 (19th percentile)
The name Earnie is the #6,240 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,505 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 19.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,426 (25.3% percentile) for all time with 1,179 births since 1902. For girls, it ranks #5,390 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 326 births since 1903.
Earnie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for boys and 1903 for girls). Birth data for Earnie is available in 80 out of the 96 years between 1902 and 1997 (78 years for boys and 39 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 Earnie has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.3% of all recorded births being male. In 1997, 100.0% of babies named Earnie were boys.
For boys, Earnie reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #571) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 40 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
For girls, Earnie reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #599) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1950.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Earnie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Earnie is pronounced as ER-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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