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Emrie vs Emryn

American parents have registered 1,717 Emries since 1880, against 1,069 Emryns. But in 2025 it was Emryn that was commoner, 154 babies to 96.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emrie against Emryn, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emrie Emryn

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 28 years in which either name was published, Emrie for 23 years and Emryn for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Emrie Emryn
Total US births 1,7171,069
Most in one year 166315
Babies in 2025 96154
Estimated living today 1,7001,100
Median age today 82
Peak year 20172023
Best rank 1,387th girls887th girls
Rank in 2025 1,990th1,413th
First recorded 19982010
Girls / boys 1,712 / 51,005 / 64

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 Emries alive today are over 8; half the Emryns are over 2. That is 6 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: Emrie and Emryn.