Ernesta Popularity by Year

Follow Ernesta across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Ernesta birth-count history

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Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1981	Girls	6	#9,110	Up 1,282 places
1980	Girls	5	#10,392	Down 182 places
1979	Girls	5	#10,210	Down 1,648 places
1978	Girls	6	#8,562	Up 1,090 places
1977	Girls	5	#9,652	Down 2,356 places
1976	Girls	7	#7,296	Down 2,135 places
1975	Girls	11	#5,161	Up 919 places
1973	Girls	8	#6,080	Down 121 places
1972	Girls	8	#5,959	Down 416 places
1971	Girls	9	#5,543	Down 482 places
1970	Girls	10	#5,061	Down 522 places
1963	Girls	9	#4,539	Up 754 places
1962	Girls	7	#5,293	Down 411 places
1961	Girls	8	#4,882	Up 814 places
1960	Girls	6	#5,696	Down 1,665 places
1959	Girls	10	#4,031	Up 2,055 places
1957	Girls	5	#6,086	Down 1,619 places
1956	Girls	8	#4,467	Up 573 places
1953	Girls	6	#5,040	Down 302 places
1950	Girls	6	#4,738	Down 164 places
1944	Girls	5	#4,574	Down 154 places
1941	Girls	5	#4,420	Down 1,212 places
1940	Girls	8	#3,208	Up 973 places
1936	Girls	5	#4,181	Up 37 places
1933	Girls	5	#4,218	Down 1,163 places
1930	Girls	9	#3,055	Up 1,918 places
1925	Girls	5	#4,973	Up 36 places
1922	Girls	5	#5,009	Down 545 places
1921	Girls	6	#4,464	Up 511 places
1920	Girls	5	#4,975	Down 2,456 places
1918	Girls	13	#2,519	Up 1,194 places
1917	Girls	7	#3,713	Down 682 places
1916	Girls	9	#3,031	Down 647 places
1915	Girls	12	#2,384	—