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Emilio vs Emilyann

American parents have registered 54,013 Emilios since 1880, against 581 Emilyanns. Emilio is still ahead, with 2,397 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emilio against Emilyann, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emilio Emilyann

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

Emilio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Emilio had 242 and Emilyann had 20.

Side by side

  Emilio Emilyann
Total US births 54,013581
Most in one year 2,39734
Babies in 2025 2,397under 5
Estimated living today 48,000570
Median age today 1528
Peak year 20251990
Best rank 154th boys3,227th girls
Rank in 2025 154thunranked
First recorded 18821982
Girls / boys 58 / 53,955581 / 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 Emilyanns alive today are over 28; half the Emilios are over 15. That is 13 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emilio and Emilyann.