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Erlene

Erlene reached its high-water mark in 1930 at number 824, and has been recorded 2,332 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1988. About 780 Erlenes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Erlene

By the numbers

Total US births
2,332
Estimated living today
780
Median age today
76
Peak year
1930
Best rank
824th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1903

How old the living Erlenes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,332 babies given the name since 1903, about 780 are alive — 33 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 630 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Erlene is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Erlene is most concentrated in Mississippi (7.5×), Alabama (4.6×), Tennessee (4.4×), North Carolina (4.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1930

The most popular girls’ names the year Erlene peaked:

All the names of 1930

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Erlene against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.