How rare is the name Earnestine?

5,526 people in the United States have the first name Earnestine, about 1 in 54,656. It ranks #3,678 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

EARNESTINE

#3,678

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,526
About
1 in 54,656
This common or more
82.8%
Who bears it

Of the 5,526 people named Earnestine, 87.8% reported their origin as Black, 8.7% as White and 1.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Earnestine peaked in 1944, when 489 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18892001
Peak year
1944
Births that year
489
In 2001
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 16,134 babies have been given the name since 1889. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Earnestine by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #632. The largest share of babies named Earnestine, 41.9%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#2,9576
1890s#2,45536
1900s#1,547145
1910s#1,189833
1920s#7592,712
1930s#6323,469
1940s#6454,404
1950s#9373,066
1960s#1,7931,017
1970s#4,485265
1980s#8,045140
1990s#22,07935
2000s#44,5766
Before 19010.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2718.6%
Silent Generation 1928–4541.9%
Baby boom 1946–6434.4%
Generation X 1965–803.8%
Millennials 1981–961%
Generation Z 1997–120%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Earnestine is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Earnestine has been most common in Mississippi (16×), Arkansas (8.6×), and Alabama (6.7×), and least common in California (0.03×).

14,234 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Earnestine

1 other first name also has 5,526 people.

#3,678 Lavon · 5,526

Either side of Earnestine

#3,674 Song · 5,530#3,677 Cal · 5,529#3,678 Lavon · 5,526#3,680 Isha · 5,525

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