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Earleane vs Earline

American parents have registered 16,583 Earlines since 1880, against 20 Earleanes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Earleane against Earline, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Earleane Earline

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Earline has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1889 to 1995. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1939, when Earleane had 7 and Earline had 326.

Side by side

  Earleane Earline
Total US births 2016,583
Most in one year 7479
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 65,600
Median age today 8776
Peak year 19331927
Best rank 3,406th girls307th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19331889
Girls / boys 20 / 016,524 / 59

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Earleanes alive today are over 87; half the Earlines are over 76. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Earleane and Earline.