Ernestina
Ernestina is a girl's name that peaked in 1947, when it was the 853rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 3,200 Ernestinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ernestina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,309
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 853rd
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1896
How old the living Ernestinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,309 babies given the name since 1896, about 3,200 are alive — 61 in every hundred. Roughly 120 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From it, pt, es Ernestina..
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ernestinas
- Ernestina Abambila (born 1998)Ghanaian footballer
- Ernestina de Champourcín (1905–1999)Spanish poet
- Ernestina Pérez Barahona (1868–1951)Chilean activist
People named Ernestina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ernestina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ernestina is most concentrated in New Mexico (11.6×), Texas (8.2×), Arizona (5.0×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Ernestina peaked:
Ernestina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Ernestina | 25 | 6,446th |
| England and Wales girls | Ernestina | 3 | 5,785th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Ernestina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,617 women called Ernestina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| León | Ernestina | 86 | 0.374 | 354 |
| Zamora | Ernestina | 23 | 0.275 | 414 |
| Asturias | Ernestina | 92 | 0.173 | 536 |
| Cuenca | Ernestina | 15 | 0.152 | 559 |
| Palencia | Ernestina | 12 | 0.150 | 552 |
| Ourense | Ernestina | 23 | 0.145 | 550 |
Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ernestina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.