Ernestine

Girl name

Ernestine has been given to 44,191 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 1928.

Meaning & origin

From French Ernestine. By surface analysis, Ernest +&lrm; -ine (feminine suffix)API. Piecewise doublet of Ernestina.

Origin: French < Germanic languages

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

44,191

Peak year

1928 (1,067 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1880

10-year trend

▼ -100%

Gender split

100% girls / 0% boys

Jane Russell

American actress (1921–2011)

Ernestine Rose

American feminist activist (1810–1892)

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Ernestine.

38,478 babies since 1880

37,089 babies since 1880

35,491 babies since 1880

34,925 babies since 1893

34,919 babies since 1896

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56,124 babies since 1885

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