boys:
855 births since 1882
#3732 (19th percentile)
overall:
855 births since 1882
#6884 (11th percentile)
The name Erle is the #6,884 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 855 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 11.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,732 (18.6% percentile) for all time with 855 births since 1882.
Erle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for boys in 1882). Birth data for Erle is available in 67 out of the 100 years between 1882 and 1981. 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.
For boys, Erle reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #494) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 64 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erle".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Erle", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 3 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Earl" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Earl..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Erle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Erle is pronounced as erl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AIR-luh, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
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