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Emilie vs Emin

American parents have registered 26,661 Emilies since 1880, against 612 Emins. Emilie is still ahead, with 170 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emilie Emin

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 2025, when Emilie had 170 and Emin had 36.

Side by side

  Emilie Emin
Total US births 26,661612
Most in one year 66037
Babies in 2025 17036
Estimated living today 21,000610
Median age today 269
Peak year 20032019
Best rank 454th girls3,143rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,309th3,240th
First recorded 18801984
Girls / boys 26,654 / 70 / 612

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 Emins are over 9. That is 17 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 Emilie Emin
France 199,550990
Belgium 6,269246
England and Wales 3,860166
Switzerland 2,601278
Scotland 5623
Poland 19015

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 Emin.