Meaning and history
Ernie is a diminutive form of Ernest.
20062006: 46 births, rank #2,578
2007: 48 births, rank #2,564
2008: 37 births, rank #3,103
2009: 24 births, rank #4,160
2010: 27 births, rank #3,812
20112011: 40 births, rank #2,904
2012: 26 births, rank #3,894
2013: 19 births, rank #4,804
2014: 25 births, rank #4,014
2015: 23 births, rank #4,295
20162016: 28 births, rank #3,776
2017: 20 births, rank #4,746
2018: 23 births, rank #4,354
2019: 18 births, rank #5,153
2020: 25 births, rank #4,020
20212021: 19 births, rank #4,936
2022: 21 births, rank #4,701
2023: 20 births, rank #4,886
2024: 14 births, rank #6,199
20252025: 18 births, rank #5,208
Ernie moved from #915 to #996 for boys between 1986 and 1988. Its highest annual birth count came in 1959, with 450 births.