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Emeric vs Emersyn

American parents have registered 22,572 Emersyns since 1880, against 691 Emerics. Emersyn is still ahead, with 2,146 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emeric 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 32 years in which either name was published, Emersyn for 28 years and Emeric for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Emeric Emersyn
Total US births 69122,572
Most in one year 1082,146
Babies in 2025 1082,146
Estimated living today 68022,000
Median age today 65
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 1,571st boys135th girls
Rank in 2025 1,571st138th
First recorded 19241998
Girls / boys 0 / 69122,246 / 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.

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 Emeric Emersyn
England and Wales 1032

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: Emeric and Emersyn.