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Baby name
Earnest
Boy
Origin of the name
Earnest comes from the English word earnest, “serious,” and is a spelling of Ernest.
Classic name
58,389births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 147rank at its peak, in 1926
Where babies named Earnest are born
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Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Earnest is most common in Mississippi (7 times), Alabama (5) and Arkansas (4.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Ernest 302,499
Names from the same era
Salvatore · Rudolph · Junior · Hubert · Willis · Aubrey
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