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Emeraude vs Emersyn

American parents have registered 22,572 Emersyns since 1880, against 51 Emeraudes. Emersyn is still ahead, with 2,146 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emeraude against Emersyn, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emeraude Emersyn

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

Emersyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Emeraude had 34 and Emersyn had 213.

Side by side

  Emeraude Emersyn
Total US births 5122,572
Most in one year 342,146
Babies in 2025 under 52,146
Estimated living today 5022,000
Median age today 175
Peak year 20082022
Best rank 4,448th girls135th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked138th
First recorded 20081998
Girls / boys 51 / 022,246 / 326

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 Emersyns are over 5. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emeraude and Emersyn.