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The name Earl is of Old English origin, and means warrior or noble. The table below indicates the number of times the name Earl has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Earl**
Use of the Name Earl for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
286,404	59,223	12,329	2,535	1,043	373	175

The table below indicates the number of times the name Earl has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Earl**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	52	335	987	4
1881	48	314	858	5
1882	49	377
1883	42	389
1884	40	464
1885	36	481
1886	31	571	852	8
1887	32	537
1888	30	675
1889	28	688
1890	25	743
1891	25	674	908	10
1892	21	888	804	14
1893	21	819	872	12
1894	20	896
1895	23	851
1896	21	892	913	13
1897	24	829	995	11
1898	25	884
1899	23	821
1900	28	1,040
1901	23	818	862	15
1902	27	877
1903	27	837
1904	29	854	970	14
1905	29	904	936	16
1906	29	912
1907	28	1,004	956	16
1908	32	997
1909	31	1,004	912	20
1910	33	1,112
1911	34	1,302
1912	36	2,512
1913	31	3,106
1914	33	3,841
1915	33	4,907
1916	32	5,555
1917	32	5,637
1918	31	6,317
1919	31	5,987
1920	31	6,542
1921	31	6,732
1922	31	6,471
1923	32	6,330
1924	33	6,514
1925	31	6,445	915	66
1926	32	6,426	1000	56
1927	33	6,406
1928	37	5,958	856	72
1929	36	5,712	897	64
1930	38	5,554	827	74
1931	40	5,021	935	55
1932	41	4,824
1933	41	4,367
1934	41	4,627
1935	46	4,197
1936	47	4,096
1937	48	3,943
1938	50	4,014
1939	50	3,895
1940	53	3,945
1941	59	3,784
1942	62	4,047
1943	60	4,167
1944	64	3,870
1945	71	3,561
1946	82	3,818
1947	83	4,225
1948	83	3,970
1949	91	3,634
1950	92	3,589
1951	95	3,541
1952	98	3,461
1953	96	3,421
1954	98	3,423
1955	106	3,244
1956	110	3,298
1957	122	3,122
1958	130	2,786
1959	134	2,681
1960	139	2,570
1961	139	2,519
1962	147	2,302
1963	154	2,157
1964	149	2,197
1965	156	1,950
1966	160	1,749
1967	163	1,652
1968	164	1,649
1969	172	1,624
1970	173	1,622
1971	177	1,501
1972	188	1,251
1973	195	1,160
1974	206	1,076
1975	212	1,021
1976	220	941
1977	220	1,002
1978	227	927
1979	245	893
1980	250	900
1981	254	861
1982	251	883
1983	268	768
1984	266	781
1985	295	689
1986	311	652
1987	332	620
1988	338	631
1989	372	601
1990	403	571
1991	421	537
1992	459	473
1993	472	445
1994	517	382
1995	569	321
1996	570	319
1997	622	277
1998	600	308
1999	645	267
2000	714	244
2001	751	228
2002	835	198
2003	864	198
2004	943	175
Totals:		286,404		545

During the last 125 years, parents have used Earl as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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