The ERNEST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,694	6640	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,733	3387	0.003	35
Change since 1880	+2961	-3253	-0.001	-18
Other Countries
Australia	90	15638	0.001	6
United Kingdom	197	16627	0	4

Top States for ERNEST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	335	4361	0.003	27
Florida	323	5883	0.002	20
California	315	8221	0.001	9
New York	291	6422	0.002	15
Texas	267	6881	0.001	13
Top States for ERNEST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	97	2332	0.005	54
Louisiana	177	3093	0.004	40
Alaska	22	3955	0.004	35
Maryland	174	3307	0.003	33
Alabama	127	4032	0.003	29

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ERNEST live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ERNEST represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ERNEST in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ERNEST by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ERNEST

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of ERNEST in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	585	12.46
Mixed Race	108	2.3
White (Hispanic)	86	1.83
Asian/Pacific	52	1.11
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.4
White (Caucasian)	3,844	81.89

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ERNEST surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ERNEST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ERNEST.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.