as a First Name
North American: from the title originally adopted as a nickname parallel to Duke, King, etc. The title was used in England in Norman times as an equivalent of the French comte ‘count’ it is from Old English eorl ‘warrior, nobleman, prince’. In some cases the given name may have been taken from the surname Earl, which was originally either a nickname or a term denoting someone who worked in the household of an earl.
| 331st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 182,283
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 262,352
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Earl per capita
- 1918
- marked the height of its popularity
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