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Ernestina

#11,239 in 2025Girls' name

Vigor, strife, through Ernestine

Ernestina has been given to 5,309 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #11,239 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1947, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Ernestina, 2025

1 in 414,000

Ernestina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ernestina: meaning, origin, and history

Vigor, strife, through Ernestine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ernestina means

Ernestina belongs to the name family reached through Ernestina → Ernestine → Ernest. Its meaning is “vigor, strife”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Ernestina. By surface analysis, Ernest + -ina. Piecewise doublet of Ernestine.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ernestina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ernestina is used in English, Occitan and Spanish.

Ernestina comes through it,pt,es Ernestina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ernestine and Ernest.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Ernestina is pronounced /eɾnesˈtina/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,309 girls were recorded with the name Ernestina between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 1947; its best national rank was #679 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,963 in 2020 to #11,239 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,079 in 2015 to #11,239 in 2025.

How common is Ernestina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,239
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ernestina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ernestina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ernestinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ernestina was born before 1952 — so the typical Ernestina is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
14.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,884
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 14.5% of all recorded uses (770).

Is Ernestina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,724
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,840
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.5%
Peak was 1947 (106)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#679
1933

Spellings of Ernestina

Ernestina is not the most common spelling — Ernestine is, with 67.3% against Ernestina's 8.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ernestina is used

Across 1910–2025, Ernestina was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 16,025 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

031 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 3,226
  2. 2Texas1 in 4,762
  3. 3Arizona1 in 7,692
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ernestina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ernestina around the world

Where Ernestina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1908–2015
    #6,446
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1967–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ernestina

People whose public names include Ernestina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ernestina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ernestina. Linked forms have their own page here.

ErnestaErnestineErnesArnoštkaErnstinaErnestyna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ernestina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,239
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,724
Best rank ever
#679
1933
Peak year
1947
106 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,309
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Ernestina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ernestina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ernestina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SocorroJeanettaJohnnyHortenciaDarlineDonaldChristeneCarmelitaJoyeJovitaArmidaVelia

Sibling names for Ernestina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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