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Emely vs Emeraude

American parents have registered 23,880 Emelys since 1880, against 51 Emeraudes. Emely is still ahead, with 590 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emely against Emeraude, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emely 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

Emely has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Emely had 1,092 and Emeraude had 34.

Side by side

  Emely Emeraude
Total US births 23,88051
Most in one year 1,09234
Babies in 2025 590under 5
Estimated living today 24,00050
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 306th girls4,448th girls
Rank in 2025 503rdunranked
First recorded 19122008
Girls / boys 23,864 / 1651 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Emely Emeraude
France 50900
Belgium 3636

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: Emely and Emeraude.