Earlean
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Earlean has been given to 2,585 babies in the U.S. since 1902. 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 1932, with 85 recorded.
Babies named Earlean, 1978
1 in 635,000
Earlean over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Earlean?
Earlean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1978
- 1 in 635,000
- 5 of 3,173,639 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 306,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1978
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 439,961 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Earlean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 439,961 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Earlean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Earleans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Earlean was born before 1938 — so the typical Earlean is around 87 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 25.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 556
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (655).
Is Earlean 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1932 (85)
- Years since peak
- 93
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Earlean
Earlean is not the most common spelling — Earlene is, with 19.3% against Earlean's 3.5%.
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 Earlean is used
Across 1910–2025, Earlean was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,439 girls, against 1 in 30,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 2,439
- 2Alabama1 in 12,500
- 3Arkansas1 in 20,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 20,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 8Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Earlean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Earlean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Earlean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Earlean
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Earlean, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Earlean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.