Emile
About 9,289 American babies have been named Emile since 1880, most of them around 1922. In 2025 it ranked 2,091st. About 4,200 Emiles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Emile boys named Emile
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,289
- Estimated living today
- 4,200
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 478th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,091st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 648 / 8,641
How old the living Emiles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,289 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,200 are alive — 45 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 the name comes from
Origin Latin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Emiles
- Émile Zola (1840–1902)French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet
- Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)French sociologist
- Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916)Belgian poet
- Émile Borel (1871–1956)French mathematician and politician
- Émile Loubet (1838–1929)8th president of France
- Emile Heskey (born 1978)English association football player
- Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864)French physicist
- Émile Bernard (1868–1941)French painter
People named Emile with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Emile is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Emile is most concentrated in Louisiana (24.6×), Rhode Island (13.3×), Maine (13.0×), New Hampshire (10.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Emile peaked:
Emile elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Emile +1 spelling | 171,975 | 19th |
| Belgium boys | Emile +1 spelling | 4,557 | 30th |
| England and Wales boys | Emile | 761 | 516th |
| Switzerland boys | Emile +1 spelling | 691 | 245th |
| France girls | Emile | 160 | 1,722nd |
| England and Wales girls | Emile | 137 | 1,783rd |
| Ireland girls | Emile | 28 | 768th |
| Ireland boys | Emile | 7 | 660th |
| Scotland boys | Emile | 6 | 680th |
| Poland boys | Emile | 2 birth registrations | 736th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Emile: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Émile | 55 | 0.004% | 722nd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Emile | 47 | 0.004% | 774th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Emile | 422 | 0.097% | 54th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Émile | 164 | 0.038% | 65th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Émile | 2 | 0.003% | 188th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Emile | 1 | 0.002% | 203rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Emile is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.21% of children were given it – 31 of them.
Emile: rank by region
In 2025, Emile was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Emile | 36 | 109 |
| Flanders | Émile | 279 | 21 |
| Wallonia | Emile | 48 | 58 |
| Wallonia | Émile | 79 | 37 |
| Brussels | Emile | 114 | 10 |
| Brussels | Émile | 225 | 6 |
In 2024, Emile was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Emile | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Emile appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (Emile, 16th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Emile, 19th), Province of Namur (Emile, 25th), Province of Walloon Brabant (Émile, 31st), Province of Walloon Brabant (Emile, 39th), Province of West Flanders (Emile, 42nd), Province of Antwerp (Emile, 48th), Province of East Flanders (Emile, 52nd), Province of Liège (Émile, 63rd), Province of Limburg (Emile, 76th), Province of Liège (Emile, 80th), Province of Hainaut (Emile, 82nd), Brussels-Capital Region (Emile, 114th), Province of Hainaut (Émile, 131st), Province of Antwerp (Émile, 181st), Brussels-Capital Region (Émile, 225th) and Province of East Flanders (Émile, 264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Emile by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 10 | 368th |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 7 | 421st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Emile among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Emile | 3,008 | 6,660 |
| the Netherlands girls | Emile | 35 | 342 |
| Finland boys | Emile +1 spelling | 23 | 85 |
| Finland girls | Emile | — | 21 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Emile against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.