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Emon vs Emoni

American parents have registered 3,119 Emonis since 1880, against 707 Emons. Emoni is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emon against Emoni, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emon Emoni

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 41 years in which either name was published, Emoni for 33 years and Emon for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Emon Emoni
Total US births 7073,119
Most in one year 31138
Babies in 2025 2178
Estimated living today 7003,100
Median age today 1814
Peak year 20232014
Best rank 3,629th boys1,634th girls
Rank in 2025 4,707th2,645th
First recorded 19801992
Girls / boys 90 / 6172,891 / 228

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 Emons alive today are over 18; half the Emonis are over 14. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emon and Emoni.