# Earnest (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/earnest/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Earnie |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 59,115 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 58,389 / 726 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 14 | 3,306 |
| 1960 | 17 | 3,019 |
| 1961 | 11 | 4,082 |
| 1963 | 5 | 6,877 |
| 1964 | 7 | 5,626 |
| 1965 | 12 | 3,798 |
| 1966 | 10 | 4,272 |
| 1967 | 10 | 4,386 |
| 1969 | 5 | 7,783 |
| 1970 | 9 | 5,506 |
| 1971 | 8 | 6,165 |
| 1972 | 5 | 8,623 |
| 1975 | 6 | 8,278 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,631 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,824 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 53 | 2,387 |
| 2012 | 50 | 2,503 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,436 |
| 2014 | 37 | 3,052 |
| 2015 | 33 | 3,386 |
| 2016 | 24 | 4,230 |
| 2017 | 32 | 3,466 |
| 2018 | 40 | 2,963 |
| 2019 | 27 | 3,921 |
| 2020 | 28 | 3,748 |
| 2021 | 21 | 4,675 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,340 |
| 2023 | 24 | 4,377 |
| 2024 | 17 | 5,500 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,164 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## People named Earnest

- Earnest Hooton, American anthropologist (1887–1954)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.