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Emran vs Emry

American parents have registered 3,326 Emrys since 1880, against 528 Emrans. Emry is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emran against Emry, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emran Emry

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 48 years in which either name was published, Emry for 45 years and Emran for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Emran Emry
Total US births 5283,326
Most in one year 41212
Babies in 2025 26195
Estimated living today 5203,200
Median age today 98
Peak year 20172017
Best rank 2,891st boys1,364th girls
Rank in 2025 4,050th1,423rd
First recorded 19941881
Girls / boys 0 / 5282,368 / 958

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Emran Emry
France 25075
England and Wales 13212

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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