Earlie
Recorded 1883–1991 · United States
Earlie was most popular in 1922, when 93 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,398 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,592 people named Earlie.
Earlie over time
How old is the name Earlie?
Earlie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1883, which makes it about 142 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 96 of the 143 years since. It was last recorded in 1991.
How many people are named Earlie?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,592 American births named Earlie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 978 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Earlie in 2025?
Earlie was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Earlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Earlie is a unisex name — 37.0% of the 3,592 Americans given it were girls and 63.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 1937 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Earlie?
Roughly 978 Americans named Earlie are alive today — 27% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 65 and 83.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Earlie is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org