Ernesta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine of ERNST. Ernst $ Germanic: ‘serious business’, ‘fight to the death’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɾnesta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ernesta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 28K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 33K
- ISIceland1 in 50K
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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
859 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Feminine of ERNST. Ernst $ Germanic: ‘serious business’, ‘fight to the death’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ernesta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | 859 | 1 in 33K | 859 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 626 | 1 in 338K | 1.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 517 | 1 in 643K | 504 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 218 | 1 in 229K | 233 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 134 | 1 in 129K | 134 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 76 | 1 in 28K | 76 | Ernesta | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 50 | 1 in 68K | 50 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 12 | 1 in 63K | 12 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 7 | 1 in 50K | 7 | — | — |
859 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ernesta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Erna.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Seria
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ernestine of Nassau-Weilburgb. 1584DEnot in their usual nameGerman countess
- Ernesta Legnani Bisib. 1788ITItalian painter and engraver (1788-1859)
- Ernesta Grisib. 1816HRItalian ballet dancer and opera singer
- Ernesta Sternb. 1854FRFrench salon-holder and novelist
- Ernesta Bittanti Battistib. 1871ITItalian writer (1871–1957)
- Ernesta Michelangelib. 1874ITItalian writer (1874-1946)
- Ernesta Di Capuab. 1875ITItalian botanist (1875-1943)
- Anna Huttb. 1875DEnot in their usual nameGerman singer
- Ernesta Oltremontib. 1899ITItalian painter (1899-1982)
- Ernesta Drinker Ballardb. 1920USAmerican horticulturalist and feminist (1920–2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,560 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 859 | #1,769 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 626 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 621 | #11,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 504 | #20,104 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 233 | #3,632 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 218 | #8,447 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 134 | #4,627 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 76 | #845 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 71 | #1,797 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 51 | #11,729 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 50 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ernesta mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine of ERNST. Ernst $ Germanic: ‘serious business’, ‘fight to the death’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Ernesta?
- In the etymology graph, Ernestine and Earnestine are forms of the same name in other languages; Ernestina is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Ernesta?
- A machine transcription gives /eɾnesta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ernesta a male or female name?
- Ernesta is a female 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 Ernesta have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 859 people named Ernesta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ernesta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ernesta is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ernesta?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 859 people named Ernesta, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ernesta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ernestaThe 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, “Ernesta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.