Earnest

M View in Terminal

Earnest closed 2025 at #4,164 on the boys' board: 25 boys, 0.001% of the market. The ten-year move is -15% (-70% over thirty); it peaked in 1926 at 1,149 boys (#147 that year), and has moved 58,391 units since first listing in 1880.

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1880
First listed
58,391
All-time boys
1926
Busiest year (1,149 babies)
25
Babies born
#4,164
Rank (M)
0.001%
Share of boys
-15%
10-yr change
-70%
30-yr change
Earnest M View in Terminal
State distribution · Earnest M · 2021–25
No state books to open — the SSA seals any state print under five babies a year, and Earnest trades too thin on the boys' board for one to survive.
Trades near Earnest · 2025 boys' board
RankNameBabies’16–’25
#4,159DarcyFM25
#4,160DawoodM25
#4,161DeanthonyM25
#4,162DelanoM25
#4,163DeondreM25
#4,164EarnestM25
#4,165EdrianM25
#4,166EdrisM25
#4,167EllingtonFM25
#4,168EmrikM25
#4,169FavianM25
Origin

Earnest: Variant of Ernest; from Germanic languages.

Germanic · 283 listings

Same shelf:

RankNameBabies’16–’25
#3OliverFM14,939
#6,222EmmaFM14
#10,771AmeliaFM6
#5HenryFM12,020
#9WilliamFM10,545
#9,161EvelynFM8
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