Emmerson
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to girls 80.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 171 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,480since 1998
Emmerson over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,607 | 66 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #2,661 | 65 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #2,425 | 75 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #2,186 | 85 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | #1,977 | 95 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #1,898 | 105 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #1,937 | 102 | #3,708 | 29 |
| 2017 | #1,721 | 123 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #1,667 | 128 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #1,488 | 154 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #1,436 | 158 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | #1,362 | 171 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #1,591 | 136 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | #1,713 | 122 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #1,639 | 136 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #1,717 | 129 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #1,929 | 107 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #1,846 | 110 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #2,607 | 65 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | — | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1929 | — | #2,002 | 15 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,435 | 12 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #2,882 | 9 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Emmerson! It came in at #7,532, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 18 girls a year got the name.
See more about Emmerson
- 54 spots since 2024 (#2,661 → #2,607)
- 630 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #2,607)
- 1,119 spots since 2015 (#1,488 → #2,607)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2013 at #1,362 (171 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,262 girls born in 2013 were named Emmerson (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.7% of all girls named Emmerson (1,307) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1997, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 29 | #5,896 (1999) | #6,714 |
| 2000s | 684 | #1,639 (2009) | #3,385 |
| 2010s | 1,307 | #1,362 (2013) | #1,667 |
| 2020s | 460 | #1,977 (2020) | #2,379 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Emmerson in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 10,262 of them was named Emmerson, which outranked 92.9% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,351Roslyn172
- #1,351Susanna172
- #1,351Ziva172
- #1,362Emmerson171
- #1,362Aracely171
- #1,362Celina171
- #1,362Chyna171
- #1,371Calista170
- #1,371Cecily170
- #1,371Evalynn170
Tied with 8 names at #1,362; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 85,981 of them was named Emmerson, which outranked 69.3% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,180Zealand23
- #4,180Zebadiah23
- #4,180Zyier23
- #4,313Emmerson22
- #4,313Aarya22
- #4,313Abdelrahman22
- #4,313Abdulahi22
- #4,463Aarish21
- #4,463Abdurahman21
- #4,463Adarius21
Tied with 149 names at #4,313; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.