What is the meaning of the name Ernest?

The meaning of the name Ernest is "serious; battle to the death". The origin of the name is "German". The name Ernest is mostly used as a boys name.

Right pronunciation of Ernest

\e-rne-st, er-nest\

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Ernest is a really popular first name for boys (#86) and also really popular as a last name (#5500). Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this boys name above or write a comment on the name Ernest.

How popular is the name Ernest?

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The year 1921 was for Ernest a very good year. In that year there were 5694 births with the name Ernest. Find out if Ernest is in the top 100 boys names 1921 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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