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Earle

Boys' name

Nobleman, through Earl

Earle has been given to 11,790 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 350 recorded.

Babies named Earle, 2014

1 in 618,000

Earle over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Earle: meaning, origin, and history

Nobleman, through Earl

surname transfer

What Earle means

Earle belongs to the name family reached through Earle → Earl. Its meaning is “nobleman”.

Origin, language, and formation

Earle is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Earle is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Earl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,505 boys were recorded with the name Earle between 1880 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 350 in 1918; its best national rank was #232 in 1894.

In the United States, 285 girls were recorded with the name Earle between 1889 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,173 in 1889.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Earle?

Earle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Earle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Earle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Earles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Earle was born before 1928 — so the typical Earle is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,274
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (2,805).

Is Earle rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (350)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#232
1894

Spellings of Earle

Earle is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 35.3% against Earle's 0.80%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Earle is used

Across 1910–2025, Earle was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 1,852 boys, against 1 in 25,040 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

054 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 1,852
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 4,348
  3. 3New Hampshire1 in 6,250
  4. 4Vermont1 in 6,667
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 9,091
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 11,111
  8. 8Maryland1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Earle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Earle around the world

Where Earle ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1952–1971
    #512
    in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Earle

People whose public names include Earle, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Earle in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Earle. Linked forms have their own page here.

EarlErleEarleyEarlieArle

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Earle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#232
1894
Peak year
1918
350 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
11,505
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,173
1889
Peak year
1916
14 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
1947
All-time count
285
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Earle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EarlyMerleEarnestEarlieEarlEarvinEarnieVerleEarleyMyrleEaronCarleCharleErleBerleMurleEarselEarmonEarlinEarlisPerleEarneyEarleeEarland

Names with a curve like Earle

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Earle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CleoAlvaClairWilfordHerschelMillardAlphonseBufordCyrilElmoLymanClement

Sibling names for Earle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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