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Eman vs Emarion

American parents have registered 2,573 Emans since 1880, against 504 Emarions. Eman is still ahead, with 87 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eman 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

Eman has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Eman had 65 and Emarion had 44.

Side by side

  Eman Emarion
Total US births 2,573504
Most in one year 9044
Babies in 2025 8716
Estimated living today 2,500500
Median age today 1915
Peak year 20012005
Best rank 2,096th girls2,528th boys
Rank in 2025 2,691st5,608th
First recorded 19722002
Girls / boys 2,238 / 3350 / 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 Emans alive today are over 19; half the Emarions are over 15. That is 4 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: Eman and Emarion.