girls:
16.1k births since 1889
#1185 (79th percentile)
boys:
61 births since 1922
#4525 (1st percentile)
overall:
16.1k births since 1889
#2042 (74th percentile)
The name Earnestine is the #2,042 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,133 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 73.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,185 (79.3% percentile) for all time with 16,072 births since 1889. For boys, it ranks #4,525 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 61 births since 1922.
Earnestine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for girls and 1922 for boys). Birth data for Earnestine is available in 102 out of the 113 years between 1889 and 2001 (102 years for girls and 10 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Earnestine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Earnestine reached its peak popularity in 1944, achieving the 52.9% percentile (ranked #293) with 353 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 367 births per million (ranked 50.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
For boys, Earnestine reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #519) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Earnestine".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Earnestine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.3% confident that Earnestine is pronounced as ER-nuh-STEEN, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ER-nuh-steen, at 38.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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