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Emmalina vs Emmitt

American parents have registered 14,249 Emmitts since 1880, against 624 Emmalinas. Emmitt is still ahead, with 339 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emmalina against Emmitt, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emmalina Emmitt

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

Emmitt has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Emmalina had 77 and Emmitt had 242.

Side by side

  Emmalina Emmitt
Total US births 62414,249
Most in one year 77571
Babies in 2025 10339
Estimated living today 62010,000
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20102019
Best rank 2,427th girls500th boys
Rank in 2025 9,457th769th
First recorded 20011880
Girls / boys 624 / 011 / 14,238

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.

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