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Emiliano vs Emillie

American parents have registered 42,849 Emilianos since 1880, against 555 Emillies. Emiliano is still ahead, with 3,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emiliano Emillie

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 Emiliano had 58 and Emillie had 15.

Side by side

  Emiliano Emillie
Total US births 42,849555
Most in one year 3,70126
Babies in 2025 3,70110
Estimated living today 42,000550
Median age today 820
Peak year 20252004
Best rank 94th boys4,949th girls
Rank in 2025 94th9,457th
First recorded 18851977
Girls / boys 5 / 42,844555 / 0

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 Emillies alive today are over 20; half the Emilianos are over 8. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Emiliano Emillie
France 6055
England and Wales 153338

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: Emiliano and Emillie.