Earnell vs Earnestine
American parents have registered 16,134 Earnestines since 1880, against 22 Earnells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Earnell Earnestine
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Earnestine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1889 to 2001. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1947, when Earnell had 12 and Earnestine had 467.
Side by side
| Earnell | Earnestine | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 22 | 16,134 |
| Most in one year | 12 | 489 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 14 | 7,300 |
| Median age today | 78 | 75 |
| Peak year | 1947 | 1944 |
| Best rank | 3,096th boys | 305th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1947 | 1889 |
| Girls / boys | 5 / 17 | 16,073 / 61 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Earnells alive today are over 78; half the Earnestines are over 75. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Earnell and Earnestine.