Ernie

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ernie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#316highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1998	#2419
1999	#1850
2000	#1552
2001	#1949
2002	#1799
2004	#2578
2005	#2418
2006	#1469
2007	#1125
2008	#1511
2009	#944
2010	#1911
2011	#767
2012	#821
2013	#709
2014	#550
2015	#485
2016	#486
2017	#483
2018	#391
2019	#366
2020	#366
2021	#333
2022	#364
2023	#321
2024	#316
2025	#321

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

In 2024: #316 among boys in England and Wales, #478 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #316 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #321 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Ernie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,591 births with the name.

Ernie across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ernie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#316 (2024)	#321 (2025)	28 of 30	1,591 (1996–2025)	141 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#358 (2016)	#358 (2016)	#414 (2022)	2 of 7	7 (2016–2022)	4 (2016)

Ernie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ernie in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	3 of 10	5
2000s	108	9 of 10	12
2010s	680	10 of 10	68
2020sbusiest	788	6 of 10	131

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 131 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 29, from 11 to 40.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Ernie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #316 in England and Wales in 2024.

Ernie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#321	138	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#316	141	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#321	137	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#364	117	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#333	136	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#366	119	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#366	120	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#391	111	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#483	84	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#486	83	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#485	81	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#550	66	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#709	46	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#767	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1911	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#944	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1125	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1469	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Ernie is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Ernie, between 1996 and 2025, in 28 of those 30 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	28	#316 in 2024
Northern Ireland	2016–2022	2	#358 in 2016
Scotland	2024	1	#478 in 2024

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Ernie was ranked #316 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ayden#311
Khalid#313
Osian#313
Andrew#315
August#317
Anas#318
Freddy#318
Izhaan#318

Ernie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ernie without appearing here.

Ernie moved ahead of

Leif
In 2005 they stood at #2418 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #4052.
Shannon
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #4052.
Isak
In 2005 they stood at #2418 and #2418 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #3385.
Rodney
In 2010 they stood at #1911 and #1911 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #767 and #2613.

Moved ahead of Ernie

Hudson
In 2003 they stood at #1799 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1160.
Hunter
In 2006 they stood at #1469 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1125 and #926.
Arlo
In 2000 they stood at #1552 and #2142 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1949 and #1949.

Moved the opposite way to Ernie

Aaron
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 while Aaron went from #33 to #180.
Adam
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 while Adam went from #16 to #26.
Alan
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 while Alan went from #163 to #539.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 while Alex went from #43 to #207.

Moved the same way as Ernie

Albie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 and Albie from #853 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 and Alfred from #218 to #76.
Archie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #321 and Archie from #192 to #11.

What is known about Ernie

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1996–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #316 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ernie

Ernie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ernie across 2 official records

Ernie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ernie at a glance

Ernie across 2 official records

Ernie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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