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Emilce vs Emiliano

American parents have registered 42,849 Emilianos since 1880, against 64 Emilces. Emiliano is still ahead, with 3,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emilce against Emiliano, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emilce Emiliano

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

Emiliano has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Emilce had 30 and Emiliano had 58.

Side by side

  Emilce Emiliano
Total US births 6442,849
Most in one year 303,701
Babies in 2025 under 53,701
Estimated living today 6042,000
Median age today 338
Peak year 19912025
Best rank 3,540th girls94th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked94th
First recorded 19911885
Girls / boys 64 / 05 / 42,844

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 Emilces alive today are over 33; half the Emilianos are over 8. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emilce and Emiliano.