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Emaleigh vs Emari

American parents have registered 2,355 Emaris since 1880, against 1,121 Emaleighs. Emari is still ahead, with 104 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emaleigh against Emari, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emaleigh Emari

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 36 years in which either name was published, Emari for 34 years and Emaleigh for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Emaleigh Emari
Total US births 1,1212,355
Most in one year 72117
Babies in 2025 5104
Estimated living today 1,1002,300
Median age today 1612
Peak year 20062025
Best rank 2,538th girls2,035th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd2,035th
First recorded 19931988
Girls / boys 1,121 / 01,171 / 1,184

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 Emaleighs alive today are over 16; half the Emaris are over 12. That is 4 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 Emaleigh Emari
England and Wales 86

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: Emaleigh and Emari.