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Ernest
Pronounced /ˈɜː(ɹ)nɪst/
Rank in 2024
#1,086
Born in 2024
200
Peak year
1921 · #38
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 200 boys were named Ernest, about 1 in every 8,577.
- It peaked in 1921 with 5,697 babies, ranked #38.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 302,282 boys 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.
- 5.3Greatest1901–27
- 3.5Silent1928–45
- 1.9Boomers1946–64
- 1.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 88,738 babies, 5.31 per 1,000. Silent: 72,762 babies, 3.52 per 1,000. Boomers: 72,575 babies, 1.93 per 1,000. Gen X: 30,161 babies, 1.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 14,604 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,343 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,510 babies, 0.12 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.