How Many People Are Named Earnestine?
people named Earnestine are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 47,129 people in the US has this name
Based on 16,134 babies named Earnestine in Social Security records from 1889 to 2001, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
489 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of ERNESTINE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Earnestine in English. Counting Earnestine and these spellings together, about 23,065 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Earnestine (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Earnestine alive today is about 74 years old, and 91% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 68 and 81 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Earnestine first appears in the records in 1889 and was given most often in 1944, to 489 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2001.
Babies given the name each year, 1889 to 2001
🏆 Rank History
Earnestine has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #301, in 1940.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #301 (1940) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #350 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Earnestine alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Earnestine were born in Mississippi than in any other state: about 1,361 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Earnestine was given 10.6 times as often in Mississippi, 6 times in Arkansas and 4.9 times in Alabama.
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