Ernest
152
Babies in 2024
+49%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 182
-6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ernest
Ernest appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #296 with 152 boys registered in England & Wales.
Ernest reached its peak in 2017, when 182 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #283 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 152 represents 84% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,317 boys have been officially registered with the name Ernest in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,685 boys were registered with the name, starting from 102 in 2014 and ending at 152 in 2024.