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Emely vs Emerie

American parents have registered 23,880 Emelys since 1880, against 6,903 Emeries. Emely is still ahead, with 590 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emely against Emerie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emely Emerie

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

Emely has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Emely had 590 and Emerie had 553.

Side by side

  Emely Emerie
Total US births 23,8806,903
Most in one year 1,092596
Babies in 2025 590553
Estimated living today 24,0006,900
Median age today 166
Peak year 20082024
Best rank 306th girls516th girls
Rank in 2025 503rd553rd
First recorded 19121994
Girls / boys 23,864 / 166,883 / 20

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 Emelys alive today are over 16; half the Emeries are over 6. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Emely Emerie
England and Wales 5635

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: Emely and Emerie.