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Ernest

Pronounced /ˈɜː(ɹ)nɪst/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1927 · #1077
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:200 in 2024 (#1,086)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Ernest in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1927 with 51 babies, ranked #1077.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1886.
  • 1,855 girls have been named Ernest since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Ernest per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
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    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 524 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 510 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 393 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 254 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 100 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed in the 18th century from Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), only remotely related to modern German ernst or English earnest.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages; popular in the 19th century.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈɜː(ɹ)nɪst/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Ernest, CC BY-SA 4.0.