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Not really my cup of tea. It both looks and sounds crusty to me.

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Mostly because it's really dated in Denmark and anyone named it here would/will be born well before the 1950s or so. I believe my mother had an uncle Ernst and he would have been born in the 1920s or so. No one has been named it in recent years, but as (really) dated names have slowly been making their comebacks here, I bet it'll reappear on children sometime in the following years to come.

This message was edited 1/26/2020, 7:52 AM

I love Ernst. The abruptness is appealing to me as well. Far more charming that Ernest.

Not a fan, mainly because it's so dated here in Sweden. Plus, you can ask pretty much any Swede and they will think of one specific person who I'm not a fan of either.

Since ernst is a regular word in Dutch with the meaning of "seriousness", it is an absolute no-no to me as a Dutch person. It would be like an English person naming their son Seriousness, which is just tacky and cruel.

I prefer it to Ernest, but not enough to use. In general, I'm quite fond of German names.

sorry I dont like it

Probably I'll never forget reading a book to toddlers called A Carousel Tale in which the hero is a blue crocodile named Ernst. We read it enough times that, becoming a little bored with the story, eventually I started to notice the awkwardness of forming the sound "Ernst" so many times, and ... I'm sorry, I started to make a little joke of it. RNST! It's like beatboxing. Too many consonants - not really noticeable when occasionally encountering it as a name but if I have to repeat it, it's a silly and distracting sensation, like the word desks or tests but funnier.

Doesn't really work unless you are a German speaker. In English it sounds like a person getting the wind knocked out of them, and looks like you meant to type Ernest but missed that second e.