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Emran vs Emrys

American parents have registered 1,651 Emryses since 1880, against 528 Emrans. Emrys is still ahead, with 188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emran Emrys

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 27 years in which either name was published, Emrys for 15 years and Emran for 12 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Emran Emrys
Total US births 5281,651
Most in one year 41226
Babies in 2025 26188
Estimated living today 5201,600
Median age today 94
Peak year 20172024
Best rank 2,891st boys1,140th boys
Rank in 2025 4,050th1,260th
First recorded 19941997
Girls / boys 0 / 528341 / 1,310

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 Emrans alive today are over 9; half the Emryses are over 4. That is 5 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Emran Emrys
France 2501,600
England and Wales 132748
Belgium 3697
Switzerland 4123

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 Emrys.