Ernestina

Where Ernestina comes from

From Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Ernestina. By surface analysis, Ernest + -ina. Piecewise doublet of Ernestine.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ernestina
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,416 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Ernestina de Champourcín born
    Spanish poet
  3. 1933
    Peak, #679
    92 babies named Ernestina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,728.
  5. 1998
    Ernestina Abambila born
    Ghanaian footballer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Ernestine.
Namesakes
  • Ernestina Abambila · Ghanaian footballer, born 1998
  • Ernestina de Champourcín · Spanish poet, 1905–1999
  • Ernestina Pérez Barahona · Chilean activist, 1868–1951
  • Ernestina Herrera de Noble · Argentine publisher and executive, 1925–2017
  • Ernestina Naadu Mills · Ghanaian former first lady

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.