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Emilio vs Emina

American parents have registered 54,013 Emilios since 1880, against 768 Eminas. Emilio is still ahead, with 2,397 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emilio Emina

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 2002, when Emilio had 815 and Emina had 31.

Side by side

  Emilio Emina
Total US births 54,013768
Most in one year 2,39737
Babies in 2025 2,39727
Estimated living today 48,000760
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20252010
Best rank 154th boys4,023rd girls
Rank in 2025 154th4,878th
First recorded 18821991
Girls / boys 58 / 53,955768 / 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.

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 Emilio Emina
France 6,435345
Switzerland 1,281193
England and Wales 1,32266
Belgium 89911
Norway 319266

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: Emilio and Emina.