Ernest Family History
Ernest Name Meaning
French Walloon Dutch Polish Czech Jewish West Indian (mainly Haiti) and African (mainly Tanzania): from the personal name Ernest a cognate or a variant of German Dutch and Jewish Ernst . Americanized form of German Dutch Danish and Jewish Ernst . English: variant of Harness by folk-etymological association with the vocabulary word earnest. Compare Earnest .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022