boys:
2.4k births since 1880
#2592 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1880
#5437 (30th percentile)
The name Ernst is the #5,437 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,383 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 29.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,592 (43.5% percentile) for all time with 2,383 births since 1880.
Ernst has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ernst is available in 132 out of the 142 years between 1880 and 2021. 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.
For boys, Ernst reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 10.5% percentile (ranked #463) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 164 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ernst".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ernst. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ernst is pronounced as ernst, which has 1 syllables.
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