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Emilio vs Emitt

American parents have registered 54,013 Emilios since 1880, against 637 Emitts. Emilio is still ahead, with 2,397 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emilio Emitt

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 1908, when Emilio had 16 and Emitt had 7.

Side by side

  Emilio Emitt
Total US births 54,013637
Most in one year 2,39739
Babies in 2025 2,3978
Estimated living today 48,000350
Median age today 1511
Peak year 20252014
Best rank 154th boys2,929th boys
Rank in 2025 154th8,910th
First recorded 18821900
Girls / boys 58 / 53,9550 / 637

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 Emitts are over 11. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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