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The first name 
Earl

Earl is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Earl is a well-known but special name!

Earl is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1463 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,462 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 262,307 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Earl. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Earl

Earl -
someone you can count on

Earl is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Earl. This means that several boys named Earl have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Earl has reached its highest rank of 19 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1894. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Earl one of the most popular names of all time.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Earl was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Earl in 2022 – still a popular name

Earl will be Earl. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Earl in 2022 – in fact 78 to be precise, confirming Earl is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #1,769 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2020, when only 68 baby boys were named Earl.

Earl -
at home all over the USA, especially popular in West Virginia

Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Earl. Because: There are men and boys named Earl in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Earl is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Kentucky, where Earl ranks on position 57. The greatest chance of meeting Earl, however, is in West Virginia, where one in 268 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 637 men and boys and in Nevada, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 3,196 men and boys for their name before you once get Earl as an answer.

Earl has 4 letters 
and begins with an E

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With four letters, the name Earl is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.

Other names with 
E, a, r and l

If you take all the letters in the name Earl – E, a, r and l – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Arel or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Earl

If your name is Earl and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Earl

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Earl, you can simply say:

Elephant

Apple

Rocket

Lion

This is how the name Earl is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Earl in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Earl

Earl

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Earl

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Earl is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
A
R
L

Have you ever waved the name Earl

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

E
A
R
L

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Earl sounds like this: