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How popular is “Ernestine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ernestine” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ernestine” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ernestine” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ernestine” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ernestine” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ernestine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ernestine” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 17 0.000084374 17 100%
1881 21 0.000108984 21 100%
1882 34 0.000153476 34 100%
1883 27 0.000124455 27 100%
1884 29 0.000119116 29 100%
1885 26 0.000107949 26 100%
1886 27 0.000105751 27 100%
1887 53 0.000214235 53 100%
1888 46 0.000153603 46 100%
1889 42 0.000145356 42 100%
1890 68 0.000225613 68 100%
1891 46 0.000160462 46 100%
1892 59 0.000176449 59 100%
1893 64 0.000196788 64 100%
1894 72 0.000212584 72 100%
1895 70 0.000199419 70 100%
1896 56 0.00015665 56 100%
1897 78 0.000224812 78 100%
1898 92 0.000241182 92 100%
1899 74 0.000218139 74 100%
1900 93 0.000206548 93 100%
1901 74 0.000213989 74 100%
1902 113 0.000292191 113 100%
1903 106 0.000278069 106 100%
1904 121 0.000299887 121 100%
1905 123 0.000290148 123 100%
1906 120 0.000280079 120 100%
1907 143 0.000307269 143 100%
1908 176 0.000360177 176 100%
1909 169 0.000330579 169 100%
1910 184 0.000311489 184 100%
1911 238 0.000369406 238 100%
1912 354 0.000358277 354 100%
1913 425 0.000373755 425 100%
1914 473 0.000333958 473 100%
1915 564 0.000307789 564 100%
1916 676 0.000349459 676 100%
1917 742 0.000369752 742 100%
1918 823 0.000379069 823 100%
1919 738 0.000349722 738 100%
1920 863 0.000381412 863 100%
1921 871 0.000373098 871 100%
1922 956 0.000417621 951 5 99%
1923 904 0.00039262 898 6 99%
1924 976 0.000409807 970 6 99%
1925 1027 0.000440149 1022 5 99%
1926 1045 0.000455158 1038 7 99%
1927 1030 0.000444088 1024 6 99%
1928 1067 0.000471928 1057 10 98%
1929 922 0.00042059 914 8 98%
1930 968 0.000435391 959 9 98%
1931 953 0.000452863 941 12 97%
1932 884 0.000418701 876 8 98%
1933 847 0.000423617 842 5 99%
1934 861 0.000414577 854 7 98%
1935 905 0.000433035 893 12 97%
1936 804 0.000386989 792 12 97%
1937 781 0.000366551 774 7 98%
1938 797 0.000360214 791 6 98%
1939 794 0.000360345 794 100%
1940 774 0.000336129 767 7 98%
1941 763 0.000313164 763 100%
1942 808 0.000295774 808 100%
1943 861 0.000305042 861 100%
1944 839 0.000311887 834 5 99%
1945 772 0.000291001 772 100%
1946 787 0.000246299 787 100%
1947 838 0.000232628 838 100%
1948 775 0.000224474 775 100%
1949 765 0.000219526 765 100%
1950 721 0.000205803 721 100%
1951 697 0.00018921 697 100%
1952 706 0.000185887 701 5 99%
1953 628 0.000162963 628 100%
1954 572 0.000143693 567 5 98%
1955 502 0.000125029 502 100%
1956 534 0.000129516 534 100%
1957 459 0.00010923 453 6 97%
1958 437 0.000105711 437 100%
1959 413 0.000099327 413 100%
1960 401 0.000096538 401 100%
1961 384 0.000092702 384 100%
1962 400 0.000099123 400 100%
1963 347 0.000087666 347 100%
1964 304 0.000078197 304 100%
1965 259 0.000071439 259 100%
1966 232 0.00006675 232 100%
1967 232 0.000068338 232 100%
1968 185 0.000054759 185 100%
1969 169 0.000048629 169 100%
1970 178 0.000049355 178 100%
1971 141 0.00004108 141 100%
1972 133 0.000042316 133 100%
1973 106 0.000035136 106 100%
1974 87 0.000028618 87 100%
1975 79 0.000026164 79 100%
1976 64 0.000021092 64 100%
1977 72 0.000022666 72 100%
1978 66 0.000020795 66 100%
1979 73 0.000021942 73 100%
1980 67 0.000019451 67 100%
1981 81 0.000023415 81 100%
1982 55 0.000015679 55 100%
1983 56 0.000016169 56 100%
1984 68 0.000019491 68 100%
1985 51 0.000014289 51 100%
1986 45 0.000012651 45 100%
1987 60 0.000016641 60 100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 100%
1990 38 0.000009614 38 100%
1991 36 0.000009242 36 100%
1992 25 0.000006508 25 100%
1993 30 0.000007957 30 100%
1994 30 0.00000807 30 100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 100%
1998 18 0.000004894 18 100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%

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