Ernst

German variation of Ernest
"serious, resolute"
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Ernst Origin and Meaning

The name Ernst is a boy's name of German, Swedish origin.

Concise and clipped European version of the earnest Ernest.

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Ernst Rank in US Top 1000

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Famous People Named Ernst

  • Ernst Eduard Kummer
    German mathematician
  • Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
    German biologist
  • Ernst Angel
    Australian poet & psychologist
  • Ernst Werner von Siemens
    German entrepeneur
  • Ernst Boris Chain
    German physiologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Ernst Otto Fischer
    German chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • Ernst August Friedrich Ruska
    German physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize
  • (Ernst) Ingmar Bergman
    Swedish director
  • Ernst Haas
    German photographer
  • Ernst Lubitsch
    German,American film director
  • Ernst Kasimir Friedrich Karl Eberhard
    Count of Lippe,Biesterfeld
  • Richard R. Ernst
    German chemist and Nobel laureate
  • Alex Ernst
    Internet Comedian

The name Ernst in Pop Culture

  • Ernst Stavro Blofeld
    supervillain the James Bond series
  • Ernst Robel
    character from musical 'Spring Awakening'
  • Ernst Volger
    character in the Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld
  • Ernst Robinson
    character in book/film "The Swiss Family Robinson"
  • Ernst and Young
    professional accounting firm