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How popular is “Earl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Earl” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Earl” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Earl” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Earl” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Earl” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Earl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Earl” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 335 0.001662663 335 -100%
1881 319 0.001655526 5 314 -97%
1882 377 0.001701778 377 -100%
1883 389 0.001793073 389 -100%
1884 464 0.001905849 464 -100%
1885 481 0.00199706 481 -100%
1886 578 0.002263861 8 570 -97%
1887 537 0.002170644 537 -100%
1888 675 0.002253952 675 -100%
1889 688 0.002381068 688 -100%
1890 744 0.002468472 744 -100%
1891 684 0.002385994 10 674 -97%
1892 902 0.002697578 14 888 -97%
1893 831 0.00255517 12 819 -97%
1894 905 0.00267206 9 896 -98%
1895 861 0.002452852 10 851 -98%
1896 905 0.002531582 13 892 -97%
1897 840 0.002421049 11 829 -97%
1898 890 0.002333172 7 883 -98%
1899 827 0.002437845 6 821 -99%
1900 1049 0.002329775 12 1037 -98%
1901 832 0.002405931 14 818 -97%
1902 888 0.002296158 11 877 -98%
1903 846 0.002219307 9 837 -98%
1904 868 0.002151257 14 854 -97%
1905 920 0.00217021 16 904 -97%
1906 922 0.002151938 10 912 -98%
1907 1022 0.002196008 16 1006 -97%
1908 1013 0.002073063 14 999 -97%
1909 1027 0.002008904 20 1007 -96%
1910 1117 0.001890942 8 1109 -99%
1911 1317 0.002044149 12 1305 -98%
1912 2539 0.002569677 21 2518 -98%
1913 3133 0.00275523 23 3110 -99%
1914 3875 0.002735917 33 3842 -98%
1915 4935 0.002693151 27 4908 -99%
1916 5583 0.002886141 30 5553 -99%
1917 5678 0.002829451 46 5632 -98%
1918 6364 0.002931218 43 6321 -99%
1919 6016 0.002850854 41 5975 -99%
1920 6585 0.002910313 52 6533 -98%
1921 6797 0.002911538 43 6754 -99%
1922 6513 0.002845153 52 6461 -98%
1923 6373 0.002767884 34 6339 -99%
1924 6585 0.002764936 56 6529 -98%
1925 6501 0.00278618 65 6436 -98%
1926 6498 0.002830256 57 6441 -98%
1927 6461 0.002785685 55 6406 -98%
1928 6037 0.002670131 71 5966 -98%
1929 5803 0.00264716 66 5737 -98%
1930 5640 0.002536783 73 5567 -97%
1931 5102 0.002424458 55 5047 -98%
1932 4864 0.002303804 42 4822 -98%
1933 4408 0.00220461 33 4375 -99%
1934 4672 0.002249598 45 4627 -98%
1935 4270 0.00204316 46 4224 -98%
1936 4136 0.00199078 30 4106 -99%
1937 3966 0.001861386 24 3942 -99%
1938 4034 0.001823216 27 4007 -99%
1939 3922 0.001779942 26 3896 -99%
1940 3968 0.001723206 23 3945 -99%
1941 3835 0.001574027 30 3805 -98%
1942 4082 0.001494243 33 4049 -98%
1943 4214 0.001492971 28 4186 -99%
1944 3900 0.001449772 26 3874 -99%
1945 3591 0.001353608 25 3566 -99%
1946 3847 0.001203953 16 3831 -99%
1947 4262 0.001183126 20 4242 -99%
1948 3997 0.001157706 21 3976 -99%
1949 3669 0.001052865 16 3653 -99%
1950 3606 0.001029298 17 3589 -99%
1951 3587 0.000973739 16 3571 -99%
1952 3474 0.000914691 18 3456 -99%
1953 3457 0.000897073 20 3437 -99%
1954 3447 0.000865926 22 3425 -99%
1955 3264 0.000812935 18 3246 -99%
1956 3319 0.000804989 16 3303 -99%
1957 3155 0.000750807 16 3139 -99%
1958 2819 0.000681922 18 2801 -99%
1959 2703 0.000650073 18 2685 -99%
1960 2580 0.000621116 16 2564 -99%
1961 2537 0.000612462 17 2520 -99%
1962 2315 0.000573677 13 2302 -99%
1963 2183 0.000551513 22 2161 -98%
1964 2212 0.000568988 16 2196 -99%
1965 1962 0.000541174 13 1949 -99%
1966 1772 0.000509832 20 1752 -98%
1967 1661 0.000489264 8 1653 -99%
1968 1665 0.000492835 13 1652 -98%
1969 1637 0.000471035 17 1620 -98%
1970 1645 0.000456119 15 1630 -98%
1971 1513 0.000440805 11 1502 -99%
1972 1267 0.000403119 17 1250 -97%
1973 1173 0.000388811 15 1158 -97%
1974 1086 0.000357237 7 1079 -99%
1975 1037 0.000343446 14 1023 -97%
1976 955 0.000314735 14 941 -97%
1977 1012 0.00031859 10 1002 -98%
1978 936 0.000294908 10 926 -98%
1979 909 0.000273219 16 893 -96%
1980 912 0.000264769 11 901 -98%
1981 872 0.000252069 9 863 -98%
1982 891 0.000253994 8 883 -98%
1983 776 0.000224061 8 768 -98%
1984 790 0.000226442 9 781 -98%
1985 691 0.000193606 691 -100%
1986 658 0.000184983 7 651 -98%
1987 634 0.000175837 12 622 -96%
1988 640 0.000173205 5 635 -98%
1989 603 0.00015685 603 -100%
1990 569 0.00014396 569 -100%
1991 539 0.000138373 539 -100%
1992 474 0.000123397 474 -100%
1993 447 0.000118559 447 -100%
1994 381 0.000102484 381 -100%
1995 321 0.000087653 321 -100%
1996 319 0.000087464 319 -100%
1997 278 0.000076674 278 -100%
1998 309 0.000084008 309 -100%
1999 271 0.000073365 271 -100%
2000 245 0.000064816 245 -100%
2001 231 0.000061709 231 -100%
2002 202 0.000054035 202 -100%
2003 199 0.000052336 199 -100%
2004 178 0.000046586 178 -100%
2005 183 0.000047596 183 -100%
2006 188 0.00004752 188 -100%
2007 170 0.000042525 170 -100%
2008 170 0.00004325 170 -100%
2009 140 0.000036648 140 -100%
2010 115 0.000031117 115 -100%
2011 115 0.00003144 115 -100%
2012 123 0.000033631 123 -100%
2013 98 0.000026881 98 -100%
2014 105 0.00002833 105 -100%
2015 129 0.000034856 129 -100%
2016 110 0.000029983 110 -100%
2017 113 0.000031598 113 -100%
2018 97 0.000027589 97 -100%
2019 97 0.000027946 97 -100%
2020 68 0.000020356 68 -100%
2021 99 0.000029221 99 -100%
2022 78 0.000023056 78 -100%
2023 63 0.000019026 63 -100%
2024 68 0.00002043 68 -100%

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