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Earl
Pronounced /ɝl/
Rank in 2024
#2,160
Born in 2024
68
Peak year
1921 · #31
Origin
English
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 68 boys were named Earl, about 1 in every 25,225.
- It peaked in 1921 with 6,754 babies, ranked #31.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 289,108 boys have been named Earl since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Earl per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 6.0Greatest1901–27
- 3.9Silent1928–45
- 1.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.8Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 100,386 babies, 6.00 per 1,000. Silent: 79,741 babies, 3.86 per 1,000. Boomers: 60,097 babies, 1.60 per 1,000. Gen X: 20,931 babies, 0.77 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,547 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,117 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,125 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From earl (“nobleman”).
- (chiefly US) A male given name from English from the English noun earl.
- A female given name.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- /ɝl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Earl, CC BY-SA 4.0.