Earnest Boy Name

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The name Earnest is of German origin, and means earnestness. The table below indicates the number of times the name Earnest has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Earnest**
Use of the Name Earnest for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
56,615	13,119	2,400	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Earnest has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Earnest last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1992, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Earnest**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	154	88
1881	132	92
1882	134	104
1883	149	87
1884	132	109
1885	113	120
1886	132	105
1887	129	99
1888	118	138
1889	145	101
1890	120	122
1891	120	115
1892	116	149
1893	121	132
1894	119	131
1895	118	143
1896	124	144
1897	116	148
1898	114	161
1899	114	146
1900	106	223
1901	127	131
1902	121	159
1903	134	140
1904	110	189
1905	125	172
1906	117	183
1907	107	225
1908	111	231
1909	108	253
1910	128	255
1911	125	283
1912	132	486
1913	144	518
1914	147	640
1915	143	825
1916	155	780
1917	143	925
1918	142	1,085
1919	139	1,065
1920	139	1,098
1921	140	1,123
1922	143	1,089
1923	146	1,064
1924	144	1,148
1925	149	1,093
1926	145	1,155
1927	148	1,059
1928	153	1,043
1929	155	991
1930	153	994
1931	163	904
1932	169	873
1933	165	860
1934	161	923
1935	163	879
1936	169	815
1937	174	829
1938	175	827
1939	177	806
1940	183	801
1941	185	808
1942	188	837
1943	177	936
1944	180	896
1945	188	811
1946	203	839
1947	203	972
1948	211	895
1949	213	875
1950	213	889
1951	236	805
1952	234	806
1953	239	781
1954	250	770
1955	267	700
1956	272	721
1957	302	633
1958	299	631
1959	326	561
1960	320	593
1961	344	522
1962	354	499
1963	363	467
1964	392	415
1965	367	443
1966	368	423
1967	386	382
1968	394	389
1969	409	379
1970	415	383
1971	423	363
1972	434	333
1973	447	305
1974	473	281
1975	473	285
1976	469	281
1977	502	264
1978	564	220
1979	544	246
1980	539	251
1981	555	234
1982	533	256
1983	583	210
1984	654	174
1985	656	178
1986	641	195
1987	698	170
1988	756	157
1989	762	169
1990	850	144
1991	938	127
1992	907	135
Totals:		56,615		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Earnest as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Earnest appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 113 times during the last 125 years.

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