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Emran vs Emre

American parents have registered 974 Emres since 1880, against 528 Emrans. Emre is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emran against Emre, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emran Emre

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, Emre for 38 years and Emran for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Emran Emre
Total US births 528974
Most in one year 4143
Babies in 2025 2631
Estimated living today 520960
Median age today 915
Peak year 20172010
Best rank 2,891st boys2,787th boys
Rank in 2025 4,050th3,583rd
First recorded 19941978
Girls / boys 0 / 5285 / 969

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 Emres alive today are over 15; half the Emrans are over 9. That is 6 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 Emran Emre
France 2502,880
England and Wales 132974
Belgium 36900
Switzerland 41341
Ireland 331

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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Related comparisons

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