The first name Ernestina

Ernestina last appeared in the official list in 2011, given to 3 girls.

Office for National Statistics; years with fewer than three births are not published and show as zero. Compare Ernestina with other names.

In 2025, 8 girls born in the United States were named Ernestina, the 11,243rd most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1947, when 106 were.

US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.

• Ernestina Pérez Barahona
  Chilean activist, 1868–1951
• Ernestina Herrera de Noble
  Argentine publisher and executive (1925–2017)
• Ernestina Lecuona Casado
  Cuban pianist, music educator and composer, 1882–1951
• Ernestine Augusta of Saxe-Weimar
  Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen, 1740–1786
• Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria
  Austrian princess, 1740–1741
• Titina Silá
  Bissau-Guinean resistance fighter, 1943–1973
• Ernestine Albertine of Saxe-Weimar
  First wife and consort of Philip II, Count of Lippe-Alverdissen (1722-1769)

What does the name Ernestina mean?

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

How popular is the name Ernestina?

In 2011, 3 girls born in England and Wales were named Ernestina, ranking 5,785th.

Is Ernestina a boy's or a girl's name?

Mostly a girl's name: 100% of the 5,309 US babies named Ernestina since 1880 were girls.

When was Ernestina most popular?

1947 in the United States, when 106 babies were named Ernestina, its highest rank at 853rd.

What name is Ernestina a form of?

Ernestina is a form of Ernestine.