Earl

See also: earl

English

From earl.

Earl

The title of an earl.
(chiefly US) A male given name from English from the English noun earl.
- 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):
  "Of course Gladys and Eleanor, having graced the last generation of heroines and being at present in their social prime, will be passed on to the next generation of shopgirls -"
  "Displacing Ella and Stella," interrupted Dick.
  "And Pearl and Jewel,", Gloria added cordially, " and Earl and Elmer and Minnie."
- 1961, Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, published 2000, →ISBN, page 74:
  - - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.
A surname originating as an occupation for service in the household of an earl, or from a nickname.
A female given name
A number of places in the United States:
1. An unincorporated community in Las Animas County, Colorado.
2. An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
3. A town in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
4. An unincorporated community in Springbrook, Washburn County, Wisconsin.

male given name meaning "an earl"

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