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Emalee vs Emarion

American parents have registered 3,814 Emalees since 1880, against 504 Emarions. But in 2025 it was Emarion that was commoner, 16 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emalee against Emarion, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emalee Emarion

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 60 years in which either name was published, Emalee for 59 years and Emarion for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Emalee Emarion
Total US births 3,814504
Most in one year 23644
Babies in 2025 1316
Estimated living today 3,700500
Median age today 2015
Peak year 20052005
Best rank 1,027th girls2,528th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th5,608th
First recorded 19182002
Girls / boys 3,814 / 00 / 504

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 Emalees alive today are over 20; half the Emarions are over 15. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emalee and Emarion.