Meaning not yet researched.
Emerald: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 367 in 2025. Its best rank was #708 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #708 in 2024; #741 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Emerald in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#741 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #708.
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Emerald: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 367 girls in 2025. Peak: #708 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 397 (2024).
In 2025, 367 US girls were named Emerald, making it the 741st most common girls’ name of the year, down 33 places from #708 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 397 girls named Emerald in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #708, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 397. For comparison, it was #1,248 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emerald in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 10,056 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,212 babies named Emerald.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,098 US girls were named Emerald; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 397. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,379 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emerald ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #348 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Esmeralda (51,751 babies since 1880).
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Emerald in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 8 | #348 | #569 |
| Idaho | 6 | #367 | #328 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #457 | — |
| Virginia | 16 | #494 | — |
| North Carolina | 22 | #496 | #726 |
| Alabama | 10 | #496 | — |
| Maryland | 10 | #517 | — |
| Kentucky | 8 | #517 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #520 | — |
| Georgia | 21 | #535 | #919 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #552 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #555 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #566 | — |
| Missouri | 10 | #567 | #768 |
| Texas | 48 | #642 | #1,204 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #722 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #732 | — |
| California | 42 | #740 | #1,032 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #764 | — |
| Florida | 18 | #887 | #1,073 |
| Ohio | 10 | #906 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #921 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #950 | #1,135 |
| Arizona | 6 | #951 | #1,151 |
| Illinois | 9 | #954 | — |
| New York | 14 | #1,045 | #2,048 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,104 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,275 | #1,161 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,462 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 367 | #741 | 32 | #3,536 |
| 2024 | 397 | #708 | 26 | #4,108 |
| 2023 | 377 | #745 | 20 | #4,933 |
| 2022 | 373 | #767 | 17 | #5,504 |
| 2021 | 299 | #905 | 19 | #4,978 |
| 2020 | 268 | #954 | 10 | #7,684 |
| 2019 | 271 | #967 | 23 | #4,378 |
| 2018 | 252 | #1,026 | 9 | #8,358 |
| 2017 | 269 | #976 | 14 | #6,127 |
| 2016 | 225 | #1,127 | 13 | #6,459 |
| 2015 | 196 | #1,248 | 6 | #11,090 |
| 2014 | 220 | #1,139 | 14 | #6,089 |
| 2013 | 184 | #1,282 | 7 | #9,972 |
| 2012 | 145 | #1,526 | 6 | #11,216 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 2010 | 124 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 2009 | 161 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,590 | 6 | #11,493 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,336 | 8 | #8,961 |
| 2005 | 177 | #1,268 | 7 | #9,415 |
| 2004 | 174 | #1,251 | 5 | #11,895 |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2002 | 221 | #995 | 8 | #7,875 |
| 2001 | 226 | #962 | 6 | #9,635 |
| 2000 | 219 | #966 | — | — |
| 1999 | 233 | #906 | — | — |
| 1998 | 262 | #812 | — | — |
| 1997 | 213 | #933 | — | — |
| 1996 | 236 | #844 | — | — |
| 1995 | 229 | #855 | — | — |
| 1994 | 268 | #768 | — | — |
| 1993 | 200 | #944 | — | — |
| 1992 | 213 | #918 | — | — |
| 1991 | 196 | #962 | — | — |
| 1990 | 162 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1989 | 161 | #1,057 | 7 | #6,424 |
| 1988 | 137 | #1,121 | 7 | #5,964 |
| 1987 | 112 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1986 | 102 | #1,307 | 5 | #7,050 |
| 1985 | 87 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,710 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,943 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,808 | 5 | #5,327 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,554 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,710 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,515 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,164 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,812 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,012 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,640 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,848 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,369 | 6 | #3,659 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,383 | — | — |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,892 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,139 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,476 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,095 | 6 | #3,471 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,757 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,203 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,843 | — | — |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,671 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,711 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,704 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,049 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,411 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,049 | 5 | #3,934 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,942 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,168 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,648 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,882 | 15 | #2,080 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,647 | 18 | #1,895 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,995 | 15 | #2,105 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,463 | 7 | #3,508 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,644 | 13 | #2,384 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,984 | 6 | #3,952 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,615 | 13 | #2,380 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,827 | 10 | #2,861 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,779 | 12 | #2,500 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,296 | 14 | #2,182 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,606 | 9 | #2,940 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,750 | 11 | #2,472 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,410 | 12 | #2,305 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,295 | 7 | #3,177 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,404 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,213 | 5 | #2,652 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,278 | 5 | #1,820 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,265 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,973 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).