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Ernesta

“seriousness, zeal, fight”

feminineLatin script

[eɾˈnest̪a] · Spanish

Origin: Italian
8 language contexts: English Spanish Italian +5 more
Follow the evidence: 10 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Ernesta

Ernesta is a feminine given name documented in English, Spanish, Italian and 5 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Italian Ernesta. It is a form of Ernest, for which Polish Wikipedia gives the meaning “seriousness, zeal, fight”.

Italian origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “seriousness, zeal, fight”

From Italian Ernesta. By surface analysis, Ernest + -a.

Sources for this account (9)

Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (8)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q990884
Feminine usage in English · Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Slovene · Greek Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Italian · Italian Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Catalan · Polish Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Portuguese · Portuguese Wiktionary: Ernesta

Explore all 8 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Ernesta” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q990884.

All pronunciation details (3)

[eɾˈnest̪a] — Spanish
/ərˈnestə/ — Catalan
/eɾˈnesta/ — Catalan

02 / Across borders

Where Ernesta is used

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countries in our sources

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5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1981: 6 girls (rank 9110). Documented as a given name in English.

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4 of 21 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Ernesta

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1981: 6; applications; Rank #9,110
Peak year: 1918; 13 applications

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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Ernesta in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	12	2,384	observed
1916	9	3,031	observed
1917	7	3,713	observed
1918	13	2,519	observed
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	5	4,975	observed
1921	6	4,464	observed
1922	5	5,009	observed
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	5	4,973	observed
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	9	3,055	observed
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	5	4,218	observed
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	5	4,181	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	8	3,208	observed
1941	5	4,420	observed
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	5	4,574	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	6	4,738	observed
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	6	5,040	observed
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	8	4,467	observed
1957	5	6,086	observed
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	10	4,031	observed
1960	6	5,696	observed
1961	8	4,882	observed
1962	7	5,293	observed
1963	9	4,539	observed
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	10	5,061	observed
1971	9	5,543	observed
1972	8	5,959	observed
1973	8	6,080	observed
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	11	5,161	observed
1976	7	7,296	observed
1977	5	9,652	observed
1978	6	8,562	observed
1979	5	10,210	observed
1980	5	10,392	observed
1981	6	9,110	observed
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Ernesta” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Ernesta with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms10

Wikidata Q990884CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Italian Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Ernesta

Italian origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “seriousness, zeal, fight”

From Italian Ernesta. By surface analysis, Ernest + -a.

Sources for this account (9)

Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (8)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q990884
Feminine usage in English · Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Slovene · Greek Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Italian · Italian Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Catalan · Polish Wiktionary: Ernesta
Feminine usage in Portuguese · Portuguese Wiktionary: Ernesta

Explore all 8 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Ernesta” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q990884.

All pronunciation details (3)

[eɾˈnest̪a] — Spanish
/ərˈnestə/ — Catalan
/eɾˈnesta/ — Catalan

Where Ernesta is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Ernesta’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1981: 6 girls (rank 9110). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 21 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Ernesta

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1981: 6; applications; Rank #9,110
Peak year: 1918; 13 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Ernesta in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	12	2,384	observed
1916	9	3,031	observed
1917	7	3,713	observed
1918	13	2,519	observed
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	5	4,975	observed
1921	6	4,464	observed
1922	5	5,009	observed
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	5	4,973	observed
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	9	3,055	observed
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	5	4,218	observed
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	5	4,181	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	8	3,208	observed
1941	5	4,420	observed
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	5	4,574	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	6	4,738	observed
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	6	5,040	observed
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	8	4,467	observed
1957	5	6,086	observed
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	10	4,031	observed
1960	6	5,696	observed
1961	8	4,882	observed
1962	7	5,293	observed
1963	9	4,539	observed
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	10	5,061	observed
1971	9	5,543	observed
1972	8	5,959	observed
1973	8	6,080	observed
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	11	5,161	observed
1976	7	7,296	observed
1977	5	9,652	observed
1978	6	8,562	observed
1979	5	10,210	observed
1980	5	10,392	observed
1981	6	9,110	observed
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms10

Wikidata Q990884CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Italian Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia (pl): ErnestaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Ernesta

About Ernesta

Italian origin

Where Ernesta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Arnoštka

Ernes

Erneste

Ernestina

Ernestine

Ernestyna

Ernisa

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Ernesta

About Ernesta

Italian origin

Where Ernesta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Arnoštka

Ernes

Erneste

Ernestina

Ernestine

Ernestyna

Ernisa

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Ernesta

Italian origin

Where Ernesta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Ernesta

Italian origin

Where Ernesta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page