Ernésto
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ernésto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 59th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Ernesto, from German Ernst.
- ESSpain1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 4.9K
- ECEcuador1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
68,243 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ernesto in US United States, ES Spain, PR Puerto Rico.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishErnesto(measured from records)
- GermanErnst(measured from records)
From Spanish Ernesto, from German Ernst.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ernésto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #910 | 68,243 | 1 in 4.9K | 68K | Ernesto | 373 |
| ES Spain | — | 18,865 | 1 in 2.7K | 19K | Ernesto | 87 |
| BR Brazil | — | 15,776 | 1 in 13K | 22K | — | 5 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 13,730 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | — | 28 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,904 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.9K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 913 | 1 in 11K | 913 | — | 12 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #59 | — | — | — | Ernesto | 18 |
68,243 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ernésto mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Ernesto, from German Ernst. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 5 other sources.
- Is Ernésto a male or female name?
- Ernésto is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ernésto have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Ernésto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ernesto.
- Where is Ernésto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ernésto is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ernésto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,243 people named Ernésto in 2020, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Ernésto compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ernésto is the 910th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ern%C3%A9stoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ernésto” — the 910th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.