Earlene
14,170 recorded births · active 1901–2007
Compare Earlene →Living-age distribution
The median living Earlene is 75. If you meet a Earlene, there's about a 70% chance they're between 62 and 86 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Earlene: 1938. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Earlene is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Earlene ranks #2,283 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Name neighbors
People named Earlene have popularity-curve siblings named:
Geographic fingerprint
Earlenes are 1.7x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Earlene's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Earlene's modeled peak was #595 in 1938 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Earlene hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2007 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Earlene isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Earlene enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.