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Emiliano vs Emilse

American parents have registered 42,849 Emilianos since 1880, against 35 Emilses. Emiliano is still ahead, with 3,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emiliano Emilse

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 Emilse had 17.

Side by side

  Emiliano Emilse
Total US births 42,84935
Most in one year 3,70117
Babies in 2025 3,701under 5
Estimated living today 42,00030
Median age today 827
Peak year 20251991
Best rank 94th boys5,399th girls
Rank in 2025 94thunranked
First recorded 18851991
Girls / boys 5 / 42,84435 / 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 Emilses alive today are over 27; half the Emilianos are over 8. That is 19 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: Emiliano and Emilse.