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Earnest
Rank in 2024
#5,584
Born in 2024
17
Peak year
1926 · #147
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 17 boys were named Earnest, about 1 in every 100,901.
- It peaked in 1926 with 1,149 babies, ranked #147.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 58,366 boys have been named Earnest since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Earnest per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.0Greatest1901–27
- 0.8Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 17,370 babies, 1.04 per 1,000. Silent: 15,848 babies, 0.77 per 1,000. Boomers: 13,430 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,228 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,534 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 962 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 338 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, of occasional usage, variant of Ernest.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Earnest, CC BY-SA 4.0.