Erline
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Erline has been given to 1,640 babies in the U.S. since 1897. 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 72 recorded.
Babies named Erline, 2005
1 in 769,000
Erline 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Erline?
Erline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 369,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Erline sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Erlines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Erline was born before 1927 — so the typical Erline is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.98%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 208
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (556).
Is Erline 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 (72)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Erline
Erline is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 29.3% against Erline's 0.15%.
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 Erline is used
Across 1910–2025, Erline was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 165,283 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 25,000
- 2Alabama1 in 50,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7Texas1 in 100,000
- 8California1 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. Erline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Erline around the world
Where Erline 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.
- France1990–2020#7,136in 2020
- Canada2024–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Erline by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Erline
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Erline
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.