girls:
11 births since 1991
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
318 births since 1916
#4268 (7th percentile)
overall:
329 births since 1916
#7410 (4th percentile)
The name Erlin is the #7,410 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 329 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 4.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,268 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 318 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1991.
Erlin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Erlin is available in 32 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (31 years for boys and 2 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 Erlin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Erlin reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #904) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Erlin ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 90.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Erlin reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #896) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erlin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Erlin is pronounced as ER-lihn, which has 2 syllables.
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