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Emmalea vs Emmanuel

American parents have registered 91,451 Emmanuels since 1880, against 459 Emmaleas. Emmanuel is still ahead, with 2,035 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emmalea against Emmanuel, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emmalea Emmanuel

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

Emmanuel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Emmalea had 18 and Emmanuel had 1,510.

Side by side

  Emmalea Emmanuel
Total US births 45991,451
Most in one year 272,868
Babies in 2025 under 52,035
Estimated living today 45088,000
Median age today 2018
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 4,828th girls145th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked179th
First recorded 19861898
Girls / boys 459 / 0372 / 91,079

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 Emmaleas alive today are over 20; half the Emmanuels are over 18. That is 2 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: Emmalea and Emmanuel.