Ernestine
About Ernestine
One time joke name, à la Lily Tomlin's bossy telephone operator, Ernestine is ready for a possible reevaluation, like cousins Josephine and Clementine.
Pronounced ER-nes-teen.
As of October 2026, Ernestine ranked #14013 in US births in 2021 SSA, peaked at #193 in 1926.
Editor's take: The name Ernestine is a girl's name of English origin meaning "serious, resolute".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Ernestine on lists
Famous Ernestines
- (Ernestine) Jane Geraldine Russell
American actress
- Ernestine Auguste Sophie
Princess of Saxe,Weimar,Eisenach; Duchess of Saxe,Hildburghausen
- (Ernestine Friederike) Sophie
Princess of Saxe,Hildburghausen; Hereditary Princess of Saxe,Coburg,Saalfeld; daughter of the above
- Marie
Philippine "Ernestine" Lambriquet, adopted daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of France
- Ernestine Shepherd
oldest competitive female bodybuilder in the world
- Ernestine Jackson
American actress and singer
- Ernestine Schumann
Heink, German,American contralto
- Ernestine Anderson
American jazz and blues singer
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
American memoirist of "Cheaper by the Dozen"
- Ernestine Rose
American women's rights activist
- Ernestine Petras
American 1940s pro baseball player
- Wilhelmine Ernestine
Princess of Denmark and Norway; Electress of the Palatinate
- Elisabeth Ernestine
Princess of Saxe,Meiningen; Abbess of Gandersheim
- Diana Ernestine Ross
American singer and actress
Ernestine in pop culture
- Ernestine
a rude telephone operator in several of comedian Lily Tomlin's sketches
- Ernestine
baby Muppet on TV's "Sesame Street"
Variations & nicknames
- ErnesztinaHungarian
- ErnestaItalian