Earnestine
Earnestine was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 16,134 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,000 Americans named Earnestine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 69 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Earnestine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Earnestine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,035, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
489 babies in 1944, the peak
Earnestine peaked in 1944, when 489 babies were given it (483 girls, #305 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #14,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,225 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,259 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,275 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,441 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,272 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 14 | #5,135 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,016 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,943 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,771 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,034 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,679 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,816 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,943 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,077 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,780 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,932 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,326 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,011 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,845 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,840 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,230 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 73 | #1,263 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 89 | #1,124 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 91 | #1,157 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 114 | #998 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 120 | #975 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 155 | #849 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 213 | #698 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 191 | #733 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 217 | #670 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 264 | #600 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 257 | #588 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 316 | #518 | 0.16 |
| 1954 | 312 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1953 | 328 | #472 | 0.17 |
| 1952 | 406 | #425 | 0.22 |
| 1951 | 372 | #431 | 0.21 |
| 1950 | 403 | #397 | 0.24 |
| 1949 | 426 | #379 | 0.25 |
| 1948 | 475 | #356 | 0.28 |
| 1947 | 467 | #372 | 0.26 |
| 1946 | 420 | #368 | 0.27 |
| 1945 | 409 | #336 | 0.31 |
| 1944 | 483 | #305 | 0.36 |
| 1943 | 447 | #334 | 0.32 |
| 1942 | 416 | #341 | 0.31 |
| 1941 | 404 | #327 | 0.33 |
| 1940 | 433 | #301 | 0.38 |
| 1939 | 380 | #317 | 0.35 |
| 1938 | 356 | #337 | 0.32 |
| 1937 | 377 | #318 | 0.35 |
| 1936 | 345 | #336 | 0.33 |
| 1935 | 340 | #346 | 0.32 |
| 1934 | 361 | #328 | 0.35 |
| 1933 | 336 | #339 | 0.33 |
| 1932 | 300 | #371 | 0.28 |
| 1931 | 316 | #363 | 0.30 |
| 1930 | 337 | #367 | 0.30 |
| 1929 | 342 | #354 | 0.31 |
| 1928 | 335 | #372 | 0.29 |
| 1927 | 307 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1926 | 329 | #374 | 0.28 |
| 1925 | 301 | #395 | 0.25 |
| 1924 | 244 | #446 | 0.20 |
| 1923 | 246 | #430 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 231 | #450 | 0.19 |
| 1921 | 191 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 170 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1919 | 169 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1918 | 133 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 111 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 89 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 102 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 55 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 52 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 45 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 33 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 44 | #642 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 28 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 17 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 15 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,356 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 19 | #852 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,044 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 13 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,186 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,174 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Earnestine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Earnestine has been given almost only to girls: 61 boys in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Earnestine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Earnestine, and how old are they?
7,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 43% of the 16,134 Americans ever recorded as Earnestine. The median Earnestine alive today is 76 years old; half are between 69 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 5,526 people named Earnestine (5,507 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,130 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,130 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 557 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 151 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Earnestine born?
The states with the most babies named Earnestine are Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 2,863 | not ranked | 8.9× |
| Alabama | 1,771 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Georgia | 1,478 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 1,371 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 1,336 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| South Carolina | 1,023 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Louisiana | 915 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Florida | 773 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Tennessee | 760 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 684 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Earnestine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Earnestine is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 8.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Earnestine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 66,189 babies since 1880, Earnestine is the second most given (24% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernestine | 44,191 | under 5 | 1928 |
| Earnestine | 16,134 | under 5 | 1944 |
| Ernestina | 5,309 | 8 | 1947 |
| Ernestene | 197 | under 5 | 1927 |
| Earnstine | 153 | under 5 | 1923 |
| Earnestene | 127 | under 5 | 1923 |
| Ernestyne | 78 | under 5 | 1918 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Earnestine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Earnestine and names like it
- Compare Earnestine and ErnestineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sEarnestine peaked in 1944.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Earnestine since 1910.
- The top names of 1944The year the most babies were named Earnestine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Earnestine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.