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Emiliano vs Emilyn

American parents have registered 42,849 Emilianos since 1880, against 1,525 Emilyns. Emiliano is still ahead, with 3,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emiliano Emilyn

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 1984, when Emiliano had 38 and Emilyn had 14.

Side by side

  Emiliano Emilyn
Total US births 42,8491,525
Most in one year 3,70196
Babies in 2025 3,70125
Estimated living today 42,0001,500
Median age today 813
Peak year 20252012
Best rank 94th boys2,016th girls
Rank in 2025 94th5,099th
First recorded 18851948
Girls / boys 5 / 42,8441,525 / 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 Emilyns alive today are over 13; half the Emilianos are over 8. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Emiliano Emilyn
England and Wales 1536

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 Emilyn.