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Emilie vs Emillio

American parents have registered 26,661 Emilies since 1880, against 509 Emillios. Emilie is still ahead, with 170 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emilie against Emillio, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emilie Emillio

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

Emilie 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 2021, when Emilie had 208 and Emillio had 18.

Side by side

  Emilie Emillio
Total US births 26,661509
Most in one year 66024
Babies in 2025 1708
Estimated living today 21,000500
Median age today 2617
Peak year 20032005
Best rank 454th girls3,815th boys
Rank in 2025 1,309th8,910th
First recorded 18801918
Girls / boys 26,654 / 70 / 509

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 Emilies alive today are over 26; half the Emillios are over 17. That is 9 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 Emilie Emillio
France 199,55015

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: Emilie and Emillio.