Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Earlin

#16,644 most common boys' name of all time · #43,519 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1915–1951

Rank among boys
#16,644
Rank overall
#43,519 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
83
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1928 #2,814
Best rank
#2,596 1944
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
19201940

Earlin first appears in 1915. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1951 — 5 5 #3,986
1944 — 9 9 #2,596
1939 — 5 5 #3,770
1936 — 7 7 #3,070
1933 — 5 5 #3,936
1931 — 5 5 #4,077
1929 — 5 5 #4,269
1928 — 10 10 #2,814
1924 — 6 6 #4,122
1923 — 7 7 #3,703
1922 — 7 7 #3,744
1918 — 5 5 #4,488
1915 — 7 7 #3,337