Boy
Earnest
Earnest is a boy's name, a solidly familiar choice, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.
EtymologyVariant of Ernest
GermanicGermanic "ernst" – "serious, resolute"
Births by decade
1900s
1,907
1910s
6,909
1920s
11,013
1930s
8,853
1940s
8,844
1950s
7,445
1960s
4,589
1970s
2,995
1980s
2,000
1990s
1,053
2000s
559
2010s
297
Peaked in the 1920s · 56,464 total U.S. births since 1900