# Earlene (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/earlene/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,170 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 14,165 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 14 | 5,257 |
| 1987 | 23 | 3,776 |
| 1988 | 11 | 6,780 |
| 1989 | 23 | 4,156 |
| 1990 | 10 | 8,054 |
| 1991 | 11 | 7,556 |
| 1992 | 9 | 8,954 |
| 1993 | 8 | 9,843 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,230 |
| 1995 | 13 | 6,759 |
| 1996 | 5 | 14,148 |
| 1997 | 9 | 9,251 |
| 1998 | 6 | 12,912 |
| 1999 | 6 | 13,157 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,432 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 5 | 3,924 |

## People named Earlene

- Earlene Brown, American shot putter and discus thrower

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.