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Emmarose vs Emmie

American parents have registered 10,387 Emmies since 1880, against 960 Emmaroses. Emmie is still ahead, with 407 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emmarose Emmie

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

Emmie 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 1997, when Emmarose had 11 and Emmie had 22.

Side by side

  Emmarose Emmie
Total US births 96010,387
Most in one year 75510
Babies in 2025 20407
Estimated living today 9507,600
Median age today 108
Peak year 20152018
Best rank 2,431st girls598th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th694th
First recorded 19941880
Girls / boys 960 / 010,387 / 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 Emmaroses alive today are over 10; half the Emmies are over 8. That is 2 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: Emmarose and Emmie.