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Emori vs Emorie

American parents have registered 1,541 Emoris since 1880, against 1,030 Emories. Emori is still ahead, with 147 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emori against Emorie, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emori Emorie

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

Of the 30 years in which either name was published, Emori for 20 years and Emorie for 10 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Emori Emorie
Total US births 1,5411,030
Most in one year 15680
Babies in 2025 14773
Estimated living today 1,5001,000
Median age today 57
Peak year 20242018
Best rank 1,524th girls2,275th girls
Rank in 2025 1,561st2,438th
First recorded 19971996
Girls / boys 1,386 / 1551,030 / 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 Emories alive today are over 7; half the Emoris are over 5. 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: Emori and Emorie.