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Emilia vs Emiliana

American parents have registered 69,121 Emilias since 1880, against 3,684 Emilianas. Emilia is still ahead, with 4,682 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emilia against Emiliana, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emilia Emiliana

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

Emilia 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 2011, when Emilia had 972 and Emiliana had 96.

Side by side

  Emilia Emiliana
Total US births 69,1213,684
Most in one year 4,854344
Babies in 2025 4,682344
Estimated living today 65,0003,700
Median age today 66
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 40th girls788th girls
Rank in 2025 45th788th
First recorded 18801982
Girls / boys 69,076 / 453,684 / 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.

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 Emilia Emiliana
Poland 90,79810
England and Wales 22,999131
France 10,400370
Italy 5,660386
Belgium 2,22054
Ireland 1,6393

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: Emilia and Emiliana.