Meaning not yet researched.
Ernestina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #679 in 1933.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #679 in 1933; #11,243 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ernestina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,243 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1933, at #679.
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Ernestina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #679 in 1933 · most girls in one year: 106 (1947).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Ernestina, making it the 11,243rd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #679, reached in 1933. The most girls given the name in a single year was 106, in 1947. For comparison, it was #15,084 in 2015 and #960 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ernestina in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 6 babies. In all, 5,309 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 770 babies named Ernestina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 53 US girls were named Ernestina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ernestine (44,191 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Slovene and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Ernestina in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,243 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,964 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,001 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,968 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,332 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,350 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,680 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,327 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,084 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,624 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,219 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,590 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,620 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,927 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,155 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,222 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,392 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,630 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,967 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,885 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,079 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,547 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,942 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,647 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,047 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,696 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,713 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1972 | 72 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1961 | 66 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1958 | 72 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1957 | 75 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1956 | 71 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1955 | 76 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1954 | 86 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1953 | 84 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1952 | 71 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1951 | 75 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1950 | 88 | #960 | — | — |
| 1949 | 82 | #994 | — | — |
| 1948 | 71 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1947 | 106 | #853 | — | — |
| 1946 | 76 | #955 | — | — |
| 1945 | 73 | #882 | — | — |
| 1944 | 71 | #911 | — | — |
| 1943 | 66 | #979 | — | — |
| 1942 | 60 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1941 | 64 | #920 | — | — |
| 1940 | 75 | #822 | — | — |
| 1939 | 82 | #762 | — | — |
| 1938 | 81 | #777 | — | — |
| 1937 | 77 | #781 | — | — |
| 1936 | 63 | #858 | — | — |
| 1935 | 71 | #807 | — | — |
| 1934 | 60 | #880 | — | — |
| 1933 | 92 | #679 | — | — |
| 1932 | 71 | #809 | — | — |
| 1931 | 76 | #771 | — | — |
| 1930 | 97 | #703 | — | — |
| 1929 | 95 | #724 | — | — |
| 1928 | 75 | #832 | — | — |
| 1927 | 88 | #773 | — | — |
| 1926 | 92 | #750 | — | — |
| 1925 | 84 | #808 | — | — |
| 1924 | 64 | #952 | — | — |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1922 | 47 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1921 | 53 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,471 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).