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Emilio vs Emilynn

American parents have registered 54,013 Emilios since 1880, against 597 Emilynns. Emilio is still ahead, with 2,397 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emilio Emilynn

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 2011, when Emilio had 1,090 and Emilynn had 47.

Side by side

  Emilio Emilynn
Total US births 54,013597
Most in one year 2,39752
Babies in 2025 2,39718
Estimated living today 48,000590
Median age today 1511
Peak year 20252014
Best rank 154th boys3,137th girls
Rank in 2025 154th6,325th
First recorded 18821999
Girls / boys 58 / 53,955597 / 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 Emilios alive today are over 15; half the Emilynns are over 11. That is 4 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 Emilynn.