How rare is the name Ernestine?

16,426 people in the United States have the first name Ernestine, about 1 in 18,387. It ranks #1,807 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ERNESTINE

#1,807

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
16,426
About
1 in 18,387
This common or more
77.1%
Who bears it

Of the 16,426 people named Ernestine, 58.8% reported their origin as Black, 26.4% as White and 10% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ernestine peaked in 1928, when 1,067 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802021
Peak year
1928
Births that year
1,067
In 2021
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 44,191 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Ernestine by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #365. The largest share of babies named Ernestine, 34.8%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#648322
1890s#549679
1900s#4601,238
1910s#4155,217
1920s#3659,661
1930s#3848,594
1940s#4587,982
1950s#6735,669
1960s#1,0102,913
1970s#1,962999
1980s#3,197552
1990s#7,171237
2000s#22,86354
2010s#21,98662
2020s#31,42512
Before 19012.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2731.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4534.8%
Baby boom 1946–6424.1%
Generation X 1965–804.8%
Millennials 1981–961.5%
Generation Z 1997–120.3%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ernestine is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ernestine has been most common in Mississippi (4.6×), South Carolina (3.9×), and Arkansas (3.3×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.05×).

38,794 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.

Either side of Ernestine

#1,805 Adelaide · 16,431#1,805 Jen · 16,431#1,808 Latonya · 16,400#1,809 Abbie · 16,365

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ernestine, most common first.

#2,555 Ernestina · 9,458#45,337 Ernestino · 150

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