Earleen

Girls' name

Feminine form of Earl

Earleen has been given to 1,481 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1927, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Earleen, 1981

1 in 384,000

Earleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Earleen: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Earl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Earleen means

Earleen is a feminine form of Earl.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Earleen is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɜɹ.lin/ and /ˈɜː.lin/ for Earleen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Earleen → Earl. The family’s meaning is “nobleman”, recorded in English with the source elements earl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Earl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,481 girls were recorded with the name Earleen between 1911 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,059 in 1927.

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.

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How common is Earleen?

Earleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981: 1 in 384,000; 9 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only: 1 in 185,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 266,411 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Earleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 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 266,411 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Earleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Earleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Earleen was born before 1941 — so the typical Earleen is around 84 today.

Median birth year: 1941; About 84 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 26.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 406; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (385).

Is Earleen 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1927 (53)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,059; 1927

Spellings of Earleen

Earleen is not the most common spelling — Eileen is, with 47.0% against Earleen's 0.37%.

Eileen47.0%189,614
Aileen9.3%37,637
Marlee4.4%17,654
Earlene3.5%14,165
Karlee3.4%13,647
Jayleen3.2%13,048
Carlee3.2%12,982
Arleen3.1%12,611

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 Earleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Earleen was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 440,600 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 100,000
2Alabama1 in —
3California1 in —
4Illinois1 in —
5Kentucky1 in —
6North Carolina1 in —
7Oklahoma1 in —
8South Carolina1 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. Earleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Earleen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,059; 1927
Peak year: 1927; 53 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 1981
All-time count: 1,481
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Earleen

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

Earnesteen Harleen Shireen Jazleen Rayleen Jasleen Jaileen Mayleen Kaileen Earlean Earnest Nadeen Mazikeen Daneen Sabreen Earlie Gurleen Haneen Ashleen Rosaleen Raeleen Mehreen Taleen Marleen

Sibling names for Earleen

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

For a sister

Darline Leatrice Pearline Ima Belva George Paul Charline

For a brother

Frances Jewel Napoleon Raymon Merlin Domenick Jules Bud

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