Meaning not yet researched.
Emersen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,898 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,898 in 2008; #4,006 in 2025. About 78% of babies named Emersen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,006 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #2,898.
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Emersen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,898 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 61 (2008).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Emersen, making it the 4,006th most common girls’ name of the year, up 406 places from #4,412 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 32 girls named Emersen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,898, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #4,016 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Emersen, making it the 7,832nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 696 places from #8,528 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 9 boys named Emersen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6,129, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 14. For comparison, it was #7,652 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emersen in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 7 babies. In all, 1,175 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 549 babies named Emersen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 382 US girls were named Emersen; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Emerson (67,571 babies since 1880), Emersyn (22,572 babies since 1880), Emmerson (3,093 babies since 1880) and Emmersyn (1,240 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Emersen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,006 | 10 | #7,832 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,412 | 9 | #8,528 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,288 | 9 | #8,443 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,845 | 9 | #8,503 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,757 | 7 | #10,035 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,639 | 10 | #7,686 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,295 | 5 | #12,716 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,124 | 14 | #6,129 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,939 | 10 | #7,750 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,540 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,016 | 10 | #7,652 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,507 | 11 | #7,193 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,417 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,020 | 12 | #6,738 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,898 | 5 | #13,124 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,065 | 5 | #12,610 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,826 | — | — |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,978 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,139 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,318 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,416 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,798 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,996 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,501 | — | — |
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).