Fewer than five US girls were named Earnestine in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #301, reached in 1940. The most girls given the name in a single year was 483, in 1944. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #398 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Earnestine in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 6 babies. In all, 16,134 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 4,404 babies named Earnestine.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Earnestine.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ernestine (44,191 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Serbian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.