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NAMES LIKE EARNEST
Same rise and fall as Earnest, around the same years.
WHERE EARNEST IS POPULAR · 2024
Fewer than 5 babies were named Earnest in any single state in 2024, so no state lists it.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Earnest name popularity
Earnest has been given to 59,115 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1926, when 1,159 babies got the name, and its best rank was #280 in 1885.
In 2025, 25 babies were named Earnest (#8,844 in the country), 98% below the peak. That is down 24% from 2015.
Almost every Earnest is a boy.
An estimated 24K people named Earnest are alive in the US today, with a median age of 69.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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