Given name
Earla
“a great leader”
Earla is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “a great leader.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a great leader.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Earla through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 742
- 0 boys · 742 girls
- Most popular year
- 1949
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 10 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 28 in 1949. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 444 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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