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Earlene vs Earma

American parents have registered 14,170 Earlenes since 1880, against 601 Earmas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Earlene against Earma, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Earlene Earma

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Earlene has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1901 to 2007. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1913, when Earlene had 23 and Earma had 9.

Side by side

  Earlene Earma
Total US births 14,170601
Most in one year 40724
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6,700220
Median age today 7478
Peak year 19471938
Best rank 401st girls1,547th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19011912
Girls / boys 14,165 / 5601 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Earmas alive today are over 78; half the Earlenes are over 74. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Earlene and Earma.