Feminine dossier · first seen 1889

Earnestine

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Earnestine
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1944

Peak rank proxy

483

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1889Peak 19442024

Peak year

1944

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

16,072

Earnestine has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1944, when 483 girls were named Earnestine.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 16,072 Americans have been named Earnestine and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1889.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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