# Ernestina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ernestina/  
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 | 5,309 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,309 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Ernestina. By surface analysis, Ernest + -ina. Piecewise doublet of Ernestine.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | 14,155 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13,927 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17,620 |
| 2012 | 8 | 12,590 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,219 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,624 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,084 |
| 2016 | 10 | 10,327 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,680 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,350 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,332 |
| 2020 | 6 | 13,968 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,001 |
| 2023 | 6 | 13,964 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,243 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |

## People named Ernestina

- Ernestina Pérez Barahona, Chilean activist
- Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (1925–2017)
- Ernestina Lecuona Casado, Cuban pianist, music educator and composer
- Ernestine Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria, Austrian princess
- Titina Silá, Bissau-Guinean resistance fighter
- Ernestine Albertine of Saxe-Weimar, first wife and consort of Philip II, Count of Lippe-Alverdissen (1722-1769)

## 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.