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Emiliano vs Emir

American parents have registered 42,849 Emilianos since 1880, against 5,620 Emirs. Emiliano is still ahead, with 3,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emiliano Emir

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

Emiliano has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Emiliano had 56 and Emir had 17.

Side by side

  Emiliano Emir
Total US births 42,8495,620
Most in one year 3,701546
Babies in 2025 3,701546
Estimated living today 42,0005,600
Median age today 85
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 94th boys551st boys
Rank in 2025 94th551st
First recorded 18851970
Girls / boys 5 / 42,8445 / 5,615

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 Emilianos alive today are over 8; half the Emirs are over 5. That is 3 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 Emir
France 6054,945
Italy 3,754425
Belgium 2051,227
England and Wales 1531,021
Switzerland 179910
Poland 17142
Ireland 370

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 Emir.