Ernestine

[ur-nuh-steen]

noun

1. a female given name: derived from Ernest.

Example Sentences

Within months of her 1836 arrival in New York, Ernestine Rose, a Polish-born rabbi’s daughter, began traveling around the United States condemning women’s subjugation, economic inequality, organized religion, and chattel slavery.

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Bayless, who currently hosts his own podcast, “The Skip Bayless Show” on YouTube, married media relations expert Ernestine Sclafani in 2016.

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Her name, I would learn later, was Ernestine Eckstein.

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I’m convinced the only reason I did is that I lived in Indiana and she was a native Hoosier — born Ernestine Eppenger in South Bend, the same city from which Pete Buttigieg rose from mayor to the nation’s first out gay Cabinet member.

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I got all my grandma’s names made: Gloria, Ernestine, Romine and Hernandez.

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