Ernesto

Where Ernesto comes from

The dictionaries list Ernesto as a given name — a male given name from Spanish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1833
    Ernesto Teodoro Moneta born
    Italian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
  2. 1889
    First appearance
    #878 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1911
    Ernesto Sabato born
    Argentine writer, painter and physicist
  4. 1981
    Peak, #291
    692 babies named Ernesto — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #707.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Ernesto Sabato · Argentine writer, painter and physicist, 1911–2011
  • Ernesto Teodoro Moneta · Italian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1833–1918
  • Ernesto Valverde · Spanish association football player and manager, born 1964
  • Ernesto Geisel · military and president of Brazil, 1907–1996
  • Ernesto Cardenal · Nicaraguan priest and politician, 1925–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.