Earline vs Earnestine

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Earline Earnestine

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

Of the 104 years in which either name was published, Earline for 55 years and Earnestine for 49 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.

• 1898–1936 Earline ahead
• 1937–1967 Earnestine ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1968–1974 Earline ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1978–2001 Earnestine ahead, apart from one short spell

16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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.

Where each one is strongest

• Earline Mississippi (10.2×), Louisiana (8.2×), South Carolina (6.3×)
• Earnestine Mississippi (15.7×), Arkansas (8.6×), Alabama (6.7×)

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

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