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Emilia vs Emitt

American parents have registered 69,121 Emilias since 1880, against 637 Emitts. Emilia is still ahead, with 4,682 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emilia against Emitt, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emilia Emitt

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

Emilia 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 1945, when Emilia had 54 and Emitt had 9.

Side by side

  Emilia Emitt
Total US births 69,121637
Most in one year 4,85439
Babies in 2025 4,6828
Estimated living today 65,000350
Median age today 611
Peak year 20212014
Best rank 40th girls2,929th boys
Rank in 2025 45th8,910th
First recorded 18801900
Girls / boys 69,076 / 450 / 637

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 Emitts alive today are over 11; half the Emilias are over 6. That is 5 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: Emilia and Emitt.