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Gender: Male Origin of Ernst: German variation of Ernest Meaning of Ernest: English from German, "serious, resolute"

The name Ernst is a boy's name of German, Swedish origin. Ernst and is often added to lists like Victorian Royal Baby Names and discussed in our forums with posts like "Change two letters (5 names)".

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Concise and clipped European version of the earnest Ernest.

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Famous People Named Ernst

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Ernst Eduard Kummer, German mathematician
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, German biologist
Ernst Angel, Australian poet & psychologist
Ernst Werner von Siemens, German entrepeneur
Ernst Boris Chain, German physiologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska, German physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize
(Ernst) Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director
Ernst Haas, German photographer
Ernst Lubitsch, German-American film director
Ernst Kasimir Friedrich Karl Eberhard, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Richard R. Ernst, German chemist and Nobel laureate

Pop Culture References for the name Ernst

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Ernst Stavro Blofeld, supervillain the James Bond series
Ernst Robel, character from musical 'Spring Awakening'
Ernst Volger, character in the Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld
Ernst Robinson, character in book/film "The Swiss Family Robinson"
Ernst and Young, professional accounting firm

Comments

alliebelle Says:

2016-05-26T19:08:15

This is my dad's name. He gets called Ernest, Ern, Enst, and just about anything else you can think of. His "Starbucks name" is Joe.

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