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Emogene

Emogene reached its high-water mark in 1927 at number 413, and has been recorded 4,871 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 820 Emogenes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 84.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Emogene

By the numbers

Total US births
4,871
Estimated living today
820
Median age today
84
Peak year
1927
Best rank
413th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1886

How old the living Emogenes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,871 babies given the name since 1886, about 820 are alive — 17 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 780 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1941 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Emogene is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Emogene is most concentrated in West Virginia (15.5×), Arkansas (9.1×), Kentucky (8.7×), Alabama (4.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1927

The most popular girls’ names the year Emogene peaked:

All the names of 1927

Emogene elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Emogene 3 4,598th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.