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Emanuel vs Emarion

American parents have registered 54,855 Emanuels since 1880, against 504 Emarions. Emanuel is still ahead, with 513 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emanuel against Emarion, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emanuel 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

Emanuel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Emanuel had 1,232 and Emarion had 44.

Side by side

  Emanuel Emarion
Total US births 54,855504
Most in one year 1,38644
Babies in 2025 51316
Estimated living today 43,000500
Median age today 2215
Peak year 20072005
Best rank 256th boys2,528th boys
Rank in 2025 574th5,608th
First recorded 18802002
Girls / boys 99 / 54,7560 / 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 Emanuels alive today are over 22; half the Emarions are over 15. That is 7 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: Emanuel and Emarion.