Earnestine

Last seen for girls in 2001 at #13,521 · Last seen for boys in 1944 at #3,109
Given to girls 99.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
1940 · 433 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
16,073
since 1889

Earnestine over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Earnestine has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201889peak #301, 1940girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1994#11,7786—
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1992#10,4797—
1991#11,5096—
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1989#6,16013—
1988#7,11110—
1987#6,33511—
1986#7,1349—
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1982#4,71615—
1981#3,73921—
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1978#3,77719—
1977#3,91118—
1976#2,86526—
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1974#2,75726—
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1972#2,31132—
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1969#1,83545—
1968#1,83442—
1967#1,22775—
1966#1,26273—
1965#1,12289—
1964#1,15391—
1963#997114—
1962#974120—
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1958#670217—
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1944#305483#3,1096
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1942#341416#3,5605
1941#327404#3,5055
1940#301433#2,6718
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1938#337356#3,5345
1937#318377#2,33210
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five girls were named Earnestine! It came in at #1,147, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1894, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Earnestine is popular in 1889

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

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Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2001
  • Biggest jump: 331 spots in 1907 (#1,321 → #990)
  • Biggest drop: 473 spots in 1906 (#848 → #1,321)
Rise & fade · girls
51 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1940 at #301 (433 births)
  • Births halved by 1959, 19 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 59 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 59 yrs · run 1907–1963
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,641
  • Highest: 1 in 2,641 girls born in 1940 were named Earnestine (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 300,104 girls born in 2001 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1940s
  • 27.3% of all girls named Earnestine (4,380) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s6#1,147 (1889)#1,147
1890s36#1,099 (1899)#1,314
1900s145#761 (1909)#1,029
1910s833#524 (1919)#680
1920s2,696#354 (1929)#427
1930s3,448#317 (1939)#342
1940s4,380#301 (1940)#342
1950s3,066#398 (1950)#534
1960s1,017#697 (1960)#1,195
1970s265#2,001 (1971)#3,023
1980s140#3,739 (1981)#5,411
1990s35#9,553 (1995)#10,580
2000s6#13,521 (2001)#13,521

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Earnestine in 1889

girls
#1,147
6 births · 1 in 29,728 girls

Top girls' names in 1889

  1. #1Mary11,648
  2. #2Anna5,062
  3. #3Elizabeth3,058
  4. #4Margaret2,917
  5. #5Emma2,884
  6. #6Minnie2,624
  7. #7Florence2,465
  8. #8Ethel2,463
  9. #9Bessie2,343
  10. #10Clara2,319
  11. #1,147Earnestine6
More about 1889

girls

178,366 girls got a published name in 1889; 1 in 29,728 of them was named Earnestine, which outranked 22.4% of the 1,479 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Earnestine
  1. #1,025Yetta7
  2. #1,025Zelia7
  3. #1,025Zelpha7
  4. #1,147Earnestine6
  5. #1,147Aida6
  6. #1,147Albena6
  7. #1,147Alene6
  8. #1,279Adelaida5
  9. #1,279Aileene5
  10. #1,279Ala5

Tied with 131 names at #1,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1888
Risers
  1. ↑ 635Hellen#1,276 → #641
  2. ↑ 569Diana#1,136 → #567
  3. ↑ 536Hope#1,136 → #600
  4. ↑ 519Adelle#1,276 → #757
  5. ↑ 519Ova#1,276 → #757
Fallers
  1. ↓ 667Zilpha#612 → #1,279
  2. ↓ 643Lular#636 → #1,279
  3. ↓ 616Dagmar#663 → #1,279
  4. ↓ 589Savanah#690 → #1,279
  5. ↓ 555Harry#724 → #1,279

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1889 →