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Emon vs Emorie

American parents have registered 1,030 Emories since 1880, against 707 Emons. Emorie is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emon against Emorie, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emon Emorie

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, Emon for 22 years and Emorie for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Emon Emorie
Total US births 7071,030
Most in one year 3180
Babies in 2025 2173
Estimated living today 7001,000
Median age today 187
Peak year 20232018
Best rank 3,629th boys2,275th girls
Rank in 2025 4,707th2,438th
First recorded 19801996
Girls / boys 90 / 6171,030 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Emons alive today are over 18; half the Emories are over 7. That is 11 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 Emorie.