Meaning and history
Earnest is a variant of Ernest influenced by the spelling of the English word earnest.
20062006: 59 births, rank #2,176
2007: 50 births, rank #2,504
2008: 51 births, rank #2,467
2009: 44 births, rank #2,753
2010: 37 births, rank #3,072
20112011: 53 births, rank #2,376
2012: 50 births, rank #2,488
2013: 31 births, rank #3,405
2014: 37 births, rank #3,038
2015: 33 births, rank #3,365
20162016: 24 births, rank #4,199
2017: 32 births, rank #3,440
2018: 40 births, rank #2,943
2019: 27 births, rank #3,899
2020: 28 births, rank #3,734
20212021: 21 births, rank #4,628
2022: 24 births, rank #4,303
2023: 24 births, rank #4,343
2024: 17 births, rank #5,443
20252025: 25 births, rank #4,139
Earnest rose from #947 to #912 for boys between 1991 and 1992. Its highest annual birth count came in 1926, with 1,149 births.