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Emonii vs Emori

American parents have registered 1,541 Emoris since 1880, against 148 Emoniis. Emori is still ahead, with 147 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emonii Emori

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

Emori has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1997 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Emonii had 15 and Emori had 29.

Side by side

  Emonii Emori
Total US births 1481,541
Most in one year 16156
Babies in 2025 6147
Estimated living today 1501,500
Median age today 75
Peak year 20222024
Best rank 6,984th girls1,524th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th1,561st
First recorded 20101997
Girls / boys 148 / 01,386 / 155

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 Emoniis alive today are over 7; half the Emoris are over 5. That is 2 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: Emonii and Emori.