Earnest
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#4,164
up +1,336 places
2025 births
25
up +8 births
All-time births
58,389
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1926
- 1,149 births
- Best rank
- #106
- in 1900
- First recorded
- 1880
- #154 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1940
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19261,149#147Peak
- 19241,144#145
- 19211,128#138
- 19251,103#148
- 19201,092#140
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #106 in 1900 · peak births 1,149 in 1926
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
58,389 boys · 726 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Earnest has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.