Ernestine

Where Ernestine comes from

From French Ernestine. By surface analysis, Ernest + -ine (feminine suffix). Piecewise doublet of Ernestina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ernestine
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1810
    Ernestine Rose born
    American feminist activist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1928
    Ernestine Anderson born
    American jazz and blues singer
  4. 1928
    Peak, #193
    1,057 babies named Ernestine — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #393.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French [in turn from the Germanic languages], masculine equivalent Ernest.
Namesakes
  • Ernestine Rose · American feminist activist, 1810–1892
  • Ernestine Anderson · American jazz and blues singer, 1928–2016
  • Ernestine Schumann-Heink · Austrian-American singer, 1861–1936
  • Ernestine von Fürth · Austrian suffragist, 1877–1946
  • Ernestine Russell · Canadian gymnast and coach, 1938–2026

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.