How popular is the baby name Ernst in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Ernst.
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Sixteenth-century Dutch nobleman William of Orange (also known as William the Silent) was the primary leader of the Dutch Revolt (1566-1648).
William had a total of 16 children with five different women (four wives, one mistress). All 16 received traditional first names, but four of his daughters were given location-inspired middle names — symbols of the political alliances between William and “the lands for which he fought.”
Here are the names of all 16:
Maria (born in 1553)
Philip William, (b. 1554)
Maria (b. 1556)
Justinus (b. 1559)
Anna (b. 1562)
Anna (b. 1563)
Maurice August Philip (b. 1564)
Maurice (b. 1567)
Emilia (b. 1569)
Louise Juliana (b. 1576)
Elisabeth (b. 1577)
Catharina Belgica (b. 1578)
Charlotte Flandrina (b. 1579)
Charlotte Brabantina (b. 1580)
Emilia Antwerpiana (b. 1581)
Frederick Henry (b. 1584)
Each of the regions/locations honored with a name responded by “bestow[ing] pensions upon the children”:
Catharina Belgica was provided with an annuity of 3,000 florins by the States General of the Dutch Republic.
Charlotte Flandrina was provided with 2,000 florins by the States of Flanders.
Emilia Antwerpiana was provided with 2,000 florins by the city of Antwerp.
This inspired other parents with connections to the House of Orange-Nassau to adopt similar naming practices. For instance, Ernst Casimir I — the Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe — named his daughter Elisabeth Friso (b. 1620). And Henri Charles de Le Trémoille — a direct descendant of William of Orange via Charlotte Brabantina — named his son Charles BelgiqueHollande (b. 1655).
Sources:
Broomhall, Susan and Jacqueline Van Gent. Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau. London: Routledge, 2016.
Steen, Jasper van der. Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Dutch nobleman Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1536-1606) — one of the younger siblings of William of Orange — had a total of 24 children by three different wives. Here are their names, grouped by mother…
Want a boy name that’s not popular, but also not unheard of?
I looked through all the names at the bottom of SSA’s 2011 mega-list and found a bunch of hidden gems:
Alaric (48 baby boys)
Alban (12)
Aldous (11)
Aldric (7)
Alphonse (20)
Archibald (14)
Astor (5)
Augustin (50)
Balthazar (13)
Barclay (6)
Barnabas (8)
Bartholomew (19)
Booker (22)
Chadwick (34)
Cyril (41)
Clancy (14)
Claude (44)
Clement (34)
Crispin (21)
Darcy (15)
Dirk (40)
Doyle (10)
Ernst (6)
Ferdinand (20)
Garrick (42)
Giles (20)
Gregor (14)
Griffith (18)
Grover (9)
Gustaf (7); Gustav (29)
Horatio (10)
Hubert (46)
Ignatius (49)
Isidore (7)
Kermit (6)
Lambert (6)
Laird (17)
Laurence (48)
Laurent (9)
Leander (48)
Leith (7)
Lemuel (50)
Lowell (29)
Maxfield (22)
Newton (14)
Nicanor (8)
Norbert (9)
Norris (21)
Ogden (13)
Orson (33)
Osborn (5); Osborne (7)
Oswald (18)
Pascal (25)
Percival (13)
Peregrine (9)
Piers (16)
Regis (10)
Remis (11)
Roscoe (47)
Rudolph (44)
Rufus (39)
Rupert (8)
Sanford (6)
Seymour (6)
Sherman (40)
Sinclair (8)
Tavish (16)
Thane (48)
Tobiah (14)
Walton (14)
Warner (48)
Watson (42)
Webster (8)
Weldon (27)
Werner (11)
Wilbert (42)
Wilbur (20)
Winfield (7)
Winfred (7)
Winslow (10)
York (5)
Zebulon (25)
Zeno (13)
(In some cases, a different spelling of the name is more popular than what’s shown here. For instance, Laurence is rare, but Lawrence is moderately popular.)
Please note that I did include names in the gray area between one syllable and two syllables. The deciding factor on these particular names (such as Charles, Miles, and Noel) will be your own interpretation/accent, so be sure to test the names out loud before making any final decisions.
Many of these names also happen to be unisex, so they appear on the one-syllable girl names list as well.
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