# Earnestine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/earnestine/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,134 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 61 / 16,073 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 21 | 3,767 |
| 1982 | 15 | 4,773 |
| 1983 | 14 | 4,944 |
| 1984 | 14 | 5,017 |
| 1985 | 14 | 5,137 |
| 1986 | 9 | 7,276 |
| 1987 | 11 | 6,446 |
| 1988 | 10 | 7,280 |
| 1989 | 13 | 6,265 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,930 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,819 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,231 |
| 1995 | 8 | 9,847 |
| 1996 | 8 | 9,842 |
| 2001 | 6 | 14,042 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 6 | 3,968 |
| 1926 | 5 | 4,386 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,128 |
| 1934 | 6 | 3,393 |
| 1937 | 10 | 2,362 |
| 1938 | 5 | 3,667 |
| 1940 | 8 | 2,718 |
| 1941 | 5 | 3,643 |
| 1942 | 5 | 3,710 |
| 1944 | 6 | 3,211 |

## 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.