How Many People Are Named Earlene?

6,727

people named Earlene are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 50,807 people in the US has this name

Based on 14,170 babies named Earlene in Social Security records from 1901 to 2007, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,105

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,730

See the top 100

Peak Year

1947

407 births

Trend

2007

Last year given

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: URL-een
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Feminine form of EARL.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Earlene in English. Counting Earlene and these spellings together, about 13,003 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Earlene in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Earlene alive today is about 73 years old, and 86% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 66 and 81 in 2025.

Under 30 31
0.5%
30 to 59 880
13.1%
60 and over 5,817
86.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Earlene first appears in the records in 1901 and was given most often in 1947, to 407 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2007.

Babies given the name each year, 1901 to 2007

🏆 Rank History

Earlene has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #315, in 1938.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#315 (1938)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#394 in the 1940s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Earlene alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Earlene were born in Texas than in any other state: about 389 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Earlene was given 4.1 times as often in Mississippi, 3.9 times in Arkansas and 3.1 times in Oklahoma.

Texas 389
California 383
Mississippi 355
North Carolina 310
Georgia 284
Illinois 261
Arkansas 254
Alabama 236
Pennsylvania 234
Ohio 215
Florida 205
Oklahoma 199
Missouri 197
Louisiana 179
Virginia 162
Tennessee 161
Kentucky 143
Michigan 141
South Carolina 113
New York 106
Maryland 100
Indiana 96
Kansas 73
Washington 34
West Virginia 28
District of Columbia 23
Utah 22
Massachusetts 20
Maine 17
Arizona 12
Colorado 10
Nebraska 5
New Jersey 4
Wisconsin 4
Idaho 4
Iowa 3
Montana 2

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