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Eman vs Emanuela

American parents have registered 2,573 Emans since 1880, against 624 Emanuelas. Eman is still ahead, with 87 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eman against Emanuela, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eman Emanuela

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 63 years in which either name was published, Eman for 54 years and Emanuela for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Eman Emanuela
Total US births 2,573624
Most in one year 9022
Babies in 2025 8712
Estimated living today 2,500580
Median age today 1918
Peak year 20012015
Best rank 2,096th girls5,833rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,691st8,362nd
First recorded 19721918
Girls / boys 2,238 / 335624 / 0

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eman Emanuela
England and Wales 627229
France 70360
Switzerland 7060
Ireland 1812

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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