Early
Early is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 323rd, in 1897.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192788 births
- Best rank
- #323in 1897
- Since 1880
- 4,352people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,979 boys have been named Early in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 88 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 88 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 373 girls have also been given it, 8.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Early | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 147 | |
| 1890s | 221 | |
| 1900s | 244 | |
| 1910s | 587 | |
| 1920s | 774 | |
| 1930s | 516 | |
| 1940s | 518 | |
| 1950s | 396 | |
| 1960s | 209 | |
| 1970s | 147 | |
| 1980s | 90 | |
| 1990s | 44 | |
| 2000s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 26 | |
| 2020s | 15 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Early was the 692nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1927 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Early
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Odiepeak 1918
- Percypeak 1921
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Dewittpeak 1921
- Lemonpeak 1927
- Okeypeak 1925
- Mackpeak 1942
- Sampeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.