Ernest

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form (also English) of Ernust

Related Names

See Ernust

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ernestsson

Female

Ernestsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ernest
Genitive:	Ernests

- Finnish
Nominative:	Ernest
Genitive:	Ernestin
Partitive:	Ernestiä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ernest
Accusative:	Ernest
Dative:	Ernest / Ernesti
Genitive:	Ernests

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ernest
Genitive:	Ernests

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ernest
Genitive:	Ernests

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1310
  • 14th century
• Iceland:
  • In the census of 1703 (Rangárvallasýsla)
  • Officially approved as a given name on 20 September 2018

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		192	441	0	0	192	441
Finland		n.a.	777	0	0	n.a.	777
Denmark		84	n.a.	0	n.a.	84	n.a.
Iceland		9	18	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		118	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	118	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ernest.