Earnestine
Earnestine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 301st, in 1940.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1944483 births
- Best rank
- #301in 1940
- Since 1889
- 16,072people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,072 girls have been named Earnestine in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1944, with 483 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 483 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1940s alone account for 27%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Earnestine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 36 | |
| 1900s | 145 | |
| 1910s | 833 | |
| 1920s | 2,696 | |
| 1930s | 3,448 | |
| 1940s | 4,380 | |
| 1950s | 3,066 | |
| 1960s | 1,016 | |
| 1970s | 265 | |
| 1980s | 140 | |
| 1990s | 35 | |
| 2000s | 6 |
In 1944, its biggest year
Earnestine was the 305th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1944 were Mary, Barbara, Linda, Patricia and Carol. See all of 1944.
Names that rose and fell with Earnestine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earlenepeak 1947
- Phyllispeak 1947
- Neldapeak 1938
- Georgenepeak 1947
- Margenepeak 1951
- Donnispeak 1948
- Tommyepeak 1942
- Raymapeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.