girls:
44k births since 1880
#637 (89th percentile)
boys:
159 births since 1922
#4427 (3rd percentile)
overall:
44.2k births since 1880
#1168 (85th percentile)
The name Ernestine is the #1,168 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 44,190 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #637 (88.9% percentile) for all time with 44,031 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,427 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 159 births since 1922.
Ernestine has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1922 for boys). Birth data for Ernestine is available in 137 out of the 142 years between 1880 and 2021 (137 years for girls and 22 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 Ernestine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ernestine reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 68.8% percentile (ranked #189) with 844 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 884 births per million (ranked 68.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Ernestine reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #509) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1957.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ernestine".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Ernestine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.6% confident that Ernestine is pronounced as ER-nuh-steen, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ER-nuh-STEEN, at 19.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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