Ernestina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutivo femenino de Ernesto; también nombre del santoral católico
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 36 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ɛrnɛstina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ernestina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 3.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
9,458 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Diminutivo femenino de Ernesto; también nombre del santoral católico.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ernestina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,458 | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Ernestina | 206 |
| PE Peru | #631 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Ernestina | 41 |
| GH Ghana | #230 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Ernestina | 25 |
| AR Argentina | #521 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 179 | Ernestina | 71 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,286 | 1 in 40K | 9.3K | Ernestina | 61 |
| HN Honduras | #166 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Ernestina | 11 |
| NI Nicaragua | #130 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Ernestina | 15 |
| SV El Salvador | #415 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Ernestina | 14 |
9,458 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ernestina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Erna.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ernestine-Sophie de Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürstb. 1618DEnot in their usual name(1618-1701)
- Ernestina Albertina di Sassonia-Weimarb. 1722DEfirst wife and consort of Philip II, Count of Lippe-Alverdissen (1722-1769)
- Ernestine Auguste Sophie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenachb. 1740DEnot in their usual nameDuchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austriab. 1740ATnot in their usual nameAustrian princess
- Ernestina Pfeffelb. 1810(1810–1894), was the second wife of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev
- Ernestina Jelovšekb. 1842SISlovenian seamstress and writer
- Ernestina Pérez Barahonab. 1868CLChilean activist
- Alicia Alonsob. 1920CUnot in their usual nameCuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer (1920-2019)
- Ernestina Paisb. 1972ARArgentinian journalist and television presenter
- Ernestina Abambilab. 1998GHGhanaian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.4K | #2,555 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.3K | #2,269 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.3K | #2,637 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 179 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 178 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 96 | #770 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 26 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #2,555 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Ernestina?
- In the etymology graph, Ernestine, Erna and Earnestine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ernesta.
- How do you pronounce Ernestina?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛrnɛstina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ernestina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.5 thousand people named Ernestina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ernestina.
- Is Ernestina a male or female name?
- Ernestina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022), Venezuela (asosab) and Spain (INE), among others.
- What does the name Ernestina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminutivo femenino de Ernesto; también nombre del santoral católico.
- How common is the name Ernestina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,458 people named Ernestina in 2020, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Ernestina compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Ernestina is the 130th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ernestinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ernestina” — the 130th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.