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Emiko vs Emiliano

American parents have registered 42,849 Emilianos since 1880, against 1,855 Emikos. Emiliano is still ahead, with 3,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emiko against Emiliano, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emiko Emiliano

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 112 years in which either name was published, Emiliano for 89 years and Emiko for 23 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Emiko Emiliano
Total US births 1,85542,849
Most in one year 643,701
Babies in 2025 603,701
Estimated living today 1,40042,000
Median age today 148
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 2,689th girls94th boys
Rank in 2025 2,822nd94th
First recorded 19161885
Girls / boys 1,850 / 55 / 42,844

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 Emikos alive today are over 14; half the Emilianos are over 8. That is 6 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 Emiko Emiliano
France 10605
England and Wales 83153

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: Emiko and Emiliano.