Ernestina — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ernestina

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,301 babies named Ernestina between 1896 and 2023, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ernestina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 106 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ernestina performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 770 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Ernestina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,570 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Ernestina in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ernestina 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 5,301 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.