# Ernst (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ernst/  
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 | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,383 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,383 / 0 (0% 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 10 | 6,182 |
| 2000 | 9 | 7,006 |
| 2001 | 8 | 7,766 |
| 2002 | 7 | 8,735 |
| 2004 | 10 | 7,140 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,983 |
| 2006 | 7 | 9,887 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,248 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,055 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,263 |
| 2013 | 7 | 9,980 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,098 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,143 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,737 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,714 |

## People named Ernst

- Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
- Ernst Röhm, German Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934)
- Ernst Thälmann, German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany (1886–1944)
- Ernst Mayr, German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (190
- Ernst Lubitsch, German-American actor and film director (1892–1947)
- Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (1918–2007)
- Karl Ernst von Baer, Baltic German scientist (1792-1876)
- Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and manager (1925–1992)
- Ernst Barlach, German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)
- Ernst Moritz Arndt, German historian, writer and politician (1769-1860)
- Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (1810–1893)

## 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.