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Emre vs Emri

American parents have registered 974 Emres since 1880, against 699 Emris. But in 2025 it was Emri that was commoner, 62 babies to 31.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Emre Emri

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 31 years and Emri for 10 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Emre Emri
Total US births 974699
Most in one year 4362
Babies in 2025 3162
Estimated living today 960700
Median age today 157
Peak year 20102021
Best rank 2,787th boys3,002nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rd3,342nd
First recorded 19781999
Girls / boys 5 / 969623 / 76

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 Emris are over 7. That is 8 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.

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