Ernest
Top 1000
On Nameberry
About Ernest
Variation of Ernesto
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #878 | 247 | 128.6 |
| 2015 | #956 | 216 | 112.7 |
| 2016 | #977 | 210 | 110.7 |
| 2017 | #951 | 219 | 118.3 |
| 2018 | #965 | 215 | 118.4 |
| 2019 | #1,057 | 193 | 107.6 |
| 2020 | #1,009 | 208 | 120.5 |
| 2021 | #1,107 | 187 | 106.9 |
| 2022 | #1,131 | 186 | 106.5 |
| 2023 | #1,030 | 212 | 123.9 |
| 2024 | #1,083 | 200 | 116.1 |
| 2025 | #1,040 | 213 | 124.7 |
World rankings
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Famous Ernests
- Saint Ernest
German abbot of Zwiefalten
- Ernest Augustus
King of Hanover; son of George III of the U.K.
- Ernest Miller Hemingway
American novelist (he said himself that he hated the name because of the connection to the play The Importance of Being Earnest)
- Ernest I (born Ernst Anton Karl Ludwig Herzog)
Duke of Saxe,Coburg and Gotha; father of Britain's Prince Albert
- Ernest II (born Ernst August Karl Johann Leopold Alexander Eduard)
Duke of Saxe,Coburg and Gotha; brother of Prince Albert
- Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino)
American actor
- Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand,born physicist and Nobel laureate
- Ernest Henry Shackleton
English Antarctic explorer
- Amedee
Ernest Chausson, French composer
- Ernest "Ernie" Banks
American baseball player
- Ernest Jennings Ford aka Tennessee Ernie Ford
American country music singer
- Ernest Edward "Ernie" Kovacs
American actor/comedian
- Ernest Dale Tubb
American country music singer
- Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Irish physicist and Nobel laureate
- Ernest Rupert Atholl Deakin
brother of singer Louis Tomlinson
Ernest in pop culture
- Ernest P Worrell
main character in the Ernest film series
- Ernest
a main character in comic strip "Frank and Ernest" by Bob Thaves
- Ernest T. Bass
character on TV's The Andy Griffith Show
- Ernest Denouement
character in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Ernest LeClerc
character on British TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
- Ernest B. Raykes
character in Pixar's Cars
- Ernest Baldwin
character in the video game Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
- Ernest Amano
character from "Ace Attorney"
- Max
Ernest, character in the "Secret" book series
- Ernest Perriclof
character in Alexandra Adornetto's The Strangest Adventures series
- Ernest
name adopted by Jack Worthing (whose real name [spoiler] is actually Ernest) and Algernon Montcrieff in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Variations & nicknames
- ArnestoPortuguese
- ErnesztHungarian
- ErnöHungarian
- NechoPortuguese
- ErnestoPortuguese
- ErnestinoPortuguese
- ErnioPortuguese
- EarnanIrish
- EstekPolish
- ErnstSwedish
