Emalee vs Emanual
American parents have registered 3,814 Emalees since 1880, against 545 Emanuals. Emalee is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Emalee Emanual
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 72 years in which either name was published, Emalee for 54 years and Emanual for 18 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
- 1928–1941 Emanual ahead
- 1943–1949 Emalee ahead
- 1967–1979 Emanual ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1980–2025 Emalee ahead, apart from one short spell
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Emalee | Emanual | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,814 | 545 |
| Most in one year | 236 | 22 |
| Babies in 2025 | 13 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 3,700 | 480 |
| Median age today | 20 | 28 |
| Peak year | 2005 | 2001 |
| Best rank | 1,027th girls | 3,721st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 7,885th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1918 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 3,814 / 0 | 0 / 545 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Emanuals alive today are over 28; half the Emalees are over 20. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emalee and Emanual.