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Baby name
Ernest
Boy
Origin of the name
Ernest comes from the German Ernst, from ernst, “serious,” related to the English earnest.
Classic name
302,499births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 38rank at its peak, in 1921
Where babies named Ernest are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ernest is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ernest is most common in New Mexico (2.3 times), Rhode Island (2.2) and South Carolina (2.1), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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