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Emeri vs Emersyn

American parents have registered 22,572 Emersyns since 1880, against 2,670 Emeris. Emersyn is still ahead, with 2,146 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emeri against Emersyn, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emeri Emersyn

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 34 years in which either name was published, Emersyn for 25 years and Emeri for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Emeri Emersyn
Total US births 2,67022,572
Most in one year 2042,146
Babies in 2025 1642,146
Estimated living today 2,70022,000
Median age today 85
Peak year 20232022
Best rank 1,269th girls135th girls
Rank in 2025 1,458th138th
First recorded 19911998
Girls / boys 2,526 / 14422,246 / 326

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 Emeris alive today are over 8; half the Emersyns are over 5. That is 3 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: Emeri and Emersyn.