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Emiliano vs Emilie

American parents have registered 42,849 Emilianos since 1880, against 26,661 Emilies. Emiliano is still ahead, with 3,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emiliano Emilie

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 146 years in which either name was published, Emilie for 124 years and Emiliano for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Emiliano Emilie
Total US births 42,84926,661
Most in one year 3,701660
Babies in 2025 3,701170
Estimated living today 42,00021,000
Median age today 826
Peak year 20252003
Best rank 94th boys454th girls
Rank in 2025 94th1,309th
First recorded 18851880
Girls / boys 5 / 42,84426,654 / 7

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 Emilies alive today are over 26; half the Emilianos are over 8. That is 18 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 Emiliano Emilie
France 605199,550
Belgium 2056,269
Italy 3,754389
England and Wales 1533,860
Switzerland 1792,601
Ireland 3330
Poland 17190

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: Emiliano and Emilie.