Meaning not yet researched.
Ernie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #305 in 1945.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #305 in 1945; #5,270 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ernie in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,270 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1945, at #305.
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Ernie: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #305 in 1945 · most boys in one year: 450 (1959).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Ernie, making it the 5,270th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,010 places from #6,280 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 14 boys named Ernie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #305, reached in 1945. The most boys given the name in a single year was 450, in 1959. For comparison, it was #4,332 in 2015 and #383 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ernie in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 17,234 US babies have been given the name, 4.1% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,449 babies named Ernie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 206 US boys were named Ernie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Arnie (2,323 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Erney and Erny are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Erney (10), Erny (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ernie in the open dataset we use.
Ernie is listed as a nickname for Earnest, Ernest.
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 | — | — | 18 | #5,270 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,280 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,936 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,754 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #4,980 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,051 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,220 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,401 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,796 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,805 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,332 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,048 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,857 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,935 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,918 |
| 2010 | — | — | 27 | #3,844 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,197 |
| 2008 | — | — | 37 | #3,127 |
| 2007 | — | — | 48 | #2,575 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,596 |
| 2005 | — | — | 51 | #2,307 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,256 |
| 2003 | — | — | 64 | #1,854 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,165 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,356 |
| 2000 | — | — | 65 | #1,729 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,834 |
| 1998 | — | — | 58 | #1,747 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,631 |
| 1996 | — | — | 71 | #1,447 |
| 1995 | — | — | 60 | #1,566 |
| 1994 | — | — | 57 | #1,617 |
| 1993 | — | — | 86 | #1,220 |
| 1992 | — | — | 90 | #1,169 |
| 1991 | — | — | 81 | #1,239 |
| 1990 | — | — | 100 | #1,062 |
| 1989 | — | — | 77 | #1,222 |
| 1988 | — | — | 95 | #996 |
| 1987 | — | — | 90 | #1,002 |
| 1986 | — | — | 100 | #915 |
| 1985 | — | — | 96 | #928 |
| 1984 | — | — | 103 | #866 |
| 1983 | — | — | 93 | #918 |
| 1982 | — | — | 124 | #796 |
| 1981 | — | — | 131 | #762 |
| 1980 | — | — | 124 | #787 |
| 1979 | — | — | 122 | #783 |
| 1978 | — | — | 131 | #739 |
| 1977 | — | — | 140 | #721 |
| 1976 | — | — | 150 | #672 |
| 1975 | — | — | 130 | #725 |
| 1974 | — | — | 139 | #697 |
| 1973 | — | — | 156 | #636 |
| 1972 | — | — | 147 | #663 |
| 1971 | — | — | 214 | #551 |
| 1970 | — | — | 212 | #556 |
| 1969 | — | — | 222 | #527 |
| 1968 | — | — | 185 | #558 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,252 | 230 | #494 |
| 1966 | — | — | 273 | #462 |
| 1965 | — | — | 265 | #478 |
| 1964 | — | — | 312 | #452 |
| 1963 | — | — | 378 | #413 |
| 1962 | — | — | 387 | #407 |
| 1961 | — | — | 429 | #381 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,892 | 435 | #378 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,539 | 450 | #370 |
| 1958 | — | — | 442 | #368 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,321 | 420 | #377 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,987 | 325 | #418 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,133 | 311 | #416 |
| 1954 | — | — | 272 | #440 |
| 1953 | — | — | 281 | #418 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,624 | 272 | #419 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,158 | 302 | #388 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,765 | 305 | #383 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,056 | 326 | #373 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,202 | 348 | #362 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,806 | 399 | #341 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,118 | 357 | #342 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,788 | 381 | #305 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,478 | 277 | #359 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,593 | 225 | #410 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,266 | 192 | #447 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,085 | 161 | #468 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,036 | 172 | #442 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,331 | 172 | #433 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,371 | 175 | #434 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,556 | 156 | #448 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,075 | 141 | #474 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,026 | 161 | #449 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,786 | 130 | #509 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,742 | 123 | #508 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,542 | 121 | #532 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,607 | 85 | #644 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,462 | 104 | #594 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,726 | 116 | #547 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,315 | 99 | #613 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,599 | 98 | #640 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,384 | 110 | #601 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,666 | 86 | #699 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,859 | 87 | #707 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,858 | 96 | #655 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,317 | 64 | #857 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,238 | 94 | #669 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,635 | 77 | #749 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,617 | 73 | #755 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,771 | 61 | #846 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,133 | 74 | #707 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,643 | 55 | #845 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,905 | 69 | #708 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,164 | 36 | #914 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,804 | 49 | #639 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,559 | 20 | #1,040 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,397 | 20 | #716 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,361 | 19 | #685 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,649 | 19 | #624 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,466 | 15 | #693 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,546 | 12 | #784 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,608 | 11 | #776 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,035 | 19 | #535 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,727 | 13 | #657 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,882 | 7 | #941 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #880 |
| 1901 | — | — | 12 | #614 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #756 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,573 | 10 | #710 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,629 | 7 | #878 |
| 1896 | — | — | 14 | #564 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,226 | 7 | #916 |
| 1894 | — | — | 11 | #644 |
| 1893 | — | — | 11 | #625 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,001 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #883 |
| 1890 | — | — | 9 | #687 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,343 | 7 | #826 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #850 |
| 1887 | — | — | 10 | #602 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,015 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #868 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,017 |
| 1883 | — | — | 12 | #537 |
| 1882 | — | — | 12 | #552 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #852 |
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).