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Emelia vs Emeraude

American parents have registered 14,028 Emelias since 1880, against 51 Emeraudes. Emelia is still ahead, with 488 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emelia against Emeraude, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emelia Emeraude

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

Emelia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Emelia had 282 and Emeraude had 34.

Side by side

  Emelia Emeraude
Total US births 14,02851
Most in one year 70134
Babies in 2025 488under 5
Estimated living today 12,00050
Median age today 1017
Peak year 20192008
Best rank 443rd girls4,448th girls
Rank in 2025 601stunranked
First recorded 18802008
Girls / boys 14,028 / 051 / 0

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 Emeraudes alive today are over 17; half the Emelias are over 10. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Emelia Emeraude
France 330900
Belgium 56

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: Emelia and Emeraude.