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Emre vs Emrie

American parents have registered 1,717 Emries since 1880, against 974 Emres. Emrie is still ahead, with 96 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emre against Emrie, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emre Emrie

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 41 years in which either name was published, Emre for 23 years and Emrie for 18 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Emre Emrie
Total US births 9741,717
Most in one year 43166
Babies in 2025 3196
Estimated living today 9601,700
Median age today 158
Peak year 20102017
Best rank 2,787th boys1,387th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rd1,990th
First recorded 19781998
Girls / boys 5 / 9691,712 / 5

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 Emres alive today are over 15; half the Emries are over 8. That is 7 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: Emre and Emrie.