Erlene
Recorded 1903–1988 · United States
Erlene was most popular in 1930, when 74 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,500 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,332 people named Erlene.
Erlene over time
How old is the name Erlene?
Erlene first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1903, which makes it about 122 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 73 of the 123 years since. It was last recorded in 1988.
How many people are named Erlene?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,332 American births named Erlene 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 792 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Erlene in 2025?
Erlene 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 Erlene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Erlene is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,332 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
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 Erlene?
Roughly 792 Americans named Erlene are alive today — 34% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 77 years old, and half are between 68 and 84.
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 Erlene 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