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Emili vs Emilio

American parents have registered 54,013 Emilios since 1880, against 1,923 Emilis. Emilio is still ahead, with 2,397 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emili Emilio

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

Emilio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Emili had 84 and Emilio had 756.

Side by side

  Emili Emilio
Total US births 1,92354,013
Most in one year 1122,397
Babies in 2025 342,397
Estimated living today 1,90048,000
Median age today 2115
Peak year 20062025
Best rank 1,825th girls154th boys
Rank in 2025 4,172nd154th
First recorded 19741882
Girls / boys 1,923 / 058 / 53,955

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 Emilis alive today are over 21; half the Emilios are over 15. 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 Emili Emilio
France 1106,435
Italy 7983,539
England and Wales 1521,322
Switzerland 731,281
Poland 9578
Ireland 1031
Scotland 630

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: Emili and Emilio.