Earle

7,973 people in the United States were counted with the surname Earle in the 2020 census, making it the 4,308th most common in the country. That is about one person in 37,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,973
Rank: 4,308th
How common: 1 in 37,500
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Earle described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.3%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Earle

Sylvia A. Earle (born 1935)American oceanographer
Steve Earle (born 1955)American musician
Robbie Earle (born 1965)Jamaican footballer
Franklin Sumner Earle (1856–1929)American mycologist
Edward Earle (1882–1972)Canadian actor
Nathan Earle (born 1988)Australian cyclist

People named Earle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Earle

Also a first name

Earle has been given to 11,790 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.