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Emersen

Emersen is a girl's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 2,887th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,975th. About 1,200 Emersens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Emersen

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,039 girls and 136 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 36 to 10.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 22 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,175
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
12
Peak year
2008
Best rank
2,887th
Rank in 2025
3,975th
First recorded
1998
Girls / boys
1,039 / 136

How old the living Emersens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,175 babies given the name since 1998, about 1,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 920 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Emersen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Emersen is most concentrated in Texas (4.5×), California (2.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Emersen peaked:

All the names of 2008

Related names

Emersen against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.