How Many People Are Named Earle?
people named Earle are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 129,414 people in the US has this name
Based on 11,790 babies named Earle in Social Security records from 1880 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
358 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of EARL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Earle in English. Counting Earle and these spellings together, about 90,273 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Earle, 0.9% were girls and 99.1% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Earle alive today is about 66 years old, and 69% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 56 and 78 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Earle first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 358 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2014
🏆 Rank History
Earle has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #232, in 1894.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #232 (1894) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #351 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Earle alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Earle were born in Massachusetts than in any other state: about 158 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Earle was given 10.9 times as often in Maine, 4.8 times in Massachusetts and 4.4 times in New Hampshire.
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