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.

Ernie: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #316, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#316highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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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

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 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

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

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #316 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #316 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
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 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,453 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)	#316 (2024)	27 of 29	1,453 (1996–2024)	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	650	5 of 10	130

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 130 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 Waleshas 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.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. 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
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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #316, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 141 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Eron · #1892, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aysha · #316, 29y
Iyla · #317, 24y
Amiee · #318, 26y
Arianne · #314, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Antonella · #316, 26y
Aysha · #316, 29y
Casie · #316, 19y
Cate · #316, 18y

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.

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 2,573 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 Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2418 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #4052.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #4052.
Isak Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2418 and #2418 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #3385.
Rodney Compare
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 Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1799 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1160.
Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1469 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1125 and #926.
Arlo Compare
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 Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ernie

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ernie went from #2020 to #316 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #316 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ernie

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Ernie across 2 official records

Ernie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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