Earnestine — girls' name

What the Data Says About Earnestine

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,072 babies named Earnestine between 1889 and 2001, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Earnestine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1944, when 483 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Earnestine performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 4,380 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Earnestine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 2,862 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Earnestine in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Earnestine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,072 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.