Meaning not yet researched.
Emil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #90 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #90 in 1881; #1,269 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,269 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #90.
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Emil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 boys in 2025. Peak: #90 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 1,004 (1917).
In 2025, 155 US boys were named Emil, making it the 1,269th most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #1,245 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 159 boys named Emil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #90, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,004, in 1917. For comparison, it was #1,371 in 2015 and #463 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emil in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 119 babies with the name. In all, 33,230 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 7,238 babies named Emil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,546 US boys were named Emil; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 188. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,020 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emil ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #569 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emilio (54,013 babies since 1880) and Emile (9,289 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Amil, Emyle and Eimile are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Em and Emily.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Amil (1,246), Emyle (29), Eimile (28), Emel (27), Emeal (26), Emuel (12), Emele (6), Emille (5), Imal (5).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #569 | #651 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #584 | #1,217 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #616 | #794 |
| Washington | 10 | #653 | — |
| New York | 16 | #854 | #867 |
| California | 26 | #888 | #1,392 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,349 | #1,108 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,523 | #1,417 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,687 | #1,677 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 155 | #1,269 |
| 2024 | — | — | 159 | #1,245 |
| 2023 | — | — | 187 | #1,131 |
| 2022 | — | — | 188 | #1,126 |
| 2021 | — | — | 152 | #1,258 |
| 2020 | — | — | 152 | #1,235 |
| 2019 | — | — | 155 | #1,227 |
| 2018 | — | — | 129 | #1,369 |
| 2017 | — | — | 144 | #1,267 |
| 2016 | — | — | 125 | #1,405 |
| 2015 | — | — | 127 | #1,371 |
| 2014 | — | — | 120 | #1,403 |
| 2013 | — | — | 115 | #1,437 |
| 2012 | — | — | 114 | #1,449 |
| 2011 | — | — | 106 | #1,512 |
| 2010 | — | — | 106 | #1,528 |
| 2009 | — | — | 147 | #1,223 |
| 2008 | — | — | 134 | #1,296 |
| 2007 | — | — | 113 | #1,435 |
| 2006 | — | — | 101 | #1,502 |
| 2005 | — | — | 92 | #1,538 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,635 |
| 2003 | — | — | 86 | #1,501 |
| 2002 | — | — | 97 | #1,362 |
| 2001 | — | — | 109 | #1,223 |
| 2000 | — | — | 89 | #1,403 |
| 1999 | — | — | 99 | #1,253 |
| 1998 | — | — | 69 | #1,547 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,610 |
| 1996 | — | — | 73 | #1,426 |
| 1995 | — | — | 90 | #1,223 |
| 1994 | — | — | 95 | #1,171 |
| 1993 | — | — | 71 | #1,361 |
| 1992 | — | — | 104 | #1,078 |
| 1991 | — | — | 91 | #1,157 |
| 1990 | — | — | 82 | #1,208 |
| 1989 | — | — | 76 | #1,231 |
| 1988 | — | — | 73 | #1,180 |
| 1987 | — | — | 89 | #1,006 |
| 1986 | — | — | 63 | #1,206 |
| 1985 | — | — | 79 | #1,035 |
| 1984 | — | — | 84 | #970 |
| 1983 | — | — | 98 | #890 |
| 1982 | — | — | 82 | #996 |
| 1981 | — | — | 77 | #1,038 |
| 1980 | — | — | 89 | #955 |
| 1979 | — | — | 94 | #903 |
| 1978 | — | — | 89 | #917 |
| 1977 | — | — | 82 | #944 |
| 1976 | — | — | 89 | #885 |
| 1975 | — | — | 98 | #838 |
| 1974 | — | — | 92 | #838 |
| 1973 | — | — | 102 | #786 |
| 1972 | — | — | 92 | #837 |
| 1971 | — | — | 101 | #800 |
| 1970 | — | — | 124 | #741 |
| 1969 | — | — | 109 | #750 |
| 1968 | — | — | 97 | #751 |
| 1967 | — | — | 102 | #731 |
| 1966 | — | — | 99 | #741 |
| 1965 | — | — | 146 | #628 |
| 1964 | — | — | 132 | #670 |
| 1963 | — | — | 125 | #692 |
| 1962 | — | — | 147 | #638 |
| 1961 | — | — | 148 | #645 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,644 | 161 | #616 |
| 1959 | — | — | 161 | #609 |
| 1958 | — | — | 170 | #594 |
| 1957 | — | — | 188 | #562 |
| 1956 | — | — | 173 | #579 |
| 1955 | — | — | 179 | #551 |
| 1954 | — | — | 179 | #542 |
| 1953 | — | — | 184 | #519 |
| 1952 | — | — | 205 | #492 |
| 1951 | — | — | 215 | #465 |
| 1950 | — | — | 207 | #463 |
| 1949 | — | — | 217 | #454 |
| 1948 | — | — | 251 | #424 |
| 1947 | — | — | 258 | #424 |
| 1946 | — | — | 246 | #407 |
| 1945 | — | — | 223 | #403 |
| 1944 | — | — | 222 | #401 |
| 1943 | — | — | 262 | #379 |
| 1942 | — | — | 259 | #376 |
| 1941 | — | — | 297 | #334 |
| 1940 | — | — | 263 | #349 |
| 1939 | — | — | 275 | #338 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,529 | 322 | #303 |
| 1937 | — | — | 275 | #327 |
| 1936 | — | — | 273 | #331 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,405 | 320 | #304 |
| 1934 | — | — | 335 | #297 |
| 1933 | — | — | 370 | #274 |
| 1932 | — | — | 392 | #276 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,601 | 447 | #254 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,753 | 509 | #246 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,790 | 498 | #248 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,883 | 582 | #225 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,984 | 620 | #215 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,466 | 682 | #203 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,784 | 722 | #191 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,645 | 790 | #181 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,552 | 798 | #175 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,617 | 824 | #173 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,768 | 819 | #177 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,109 | 835 | #167 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,963 | 847 | #159 |
| 1918 | — | — | 912 | #154 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,444 | 1,004 | #137 |
| 1916 | — | — | 970 | #140 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,218 | 918 | #138 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,793 | 684 | #143 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,938 | 551 | #143 |
| 1912 | — | — | 407 | #146 |
| 1911 | — | — | 214 | #156 |
| 1910 | — | — | 194 | #161 |
| 1909 | — | — | 153 | #162 |
| 1908 | — | — | 141 | #165 |
| 1907 | — | — | 150 | #150 |
| 1906 | — | — | 139 | #148 |
| 1905 | — | — | 122 | #164 |
| 1904 | — | — | 101 | #181 |
| 1903 | — | — | 128 | #145 |
| 1902 | — | — | 136 | #140 |
| 1901 | — | — | 122 | #136 |
| 1900 | — | — | 127 | #165 |
| 1899 | — | — | 128 | #124 |
| 1898 | — | — | 158 | #116 |
| 1897 | — | — | 131 | #126 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,658 | 143 | #125 |
| 1895 | — | — | 136 | #122 |
| 1894 | — | — | 128 | #123 |
| 1893 | — | — | 159 | #110 |
| 1892 | — | — | 157 | #112 |
| 1891 | — | — | 133 | #110 |
| 1890 | — | — | 165 | #101 |
| 1889 | — | — | 146 | #109 |
| 1888 | — | — | 142 | #116 |
| 1887 | — | — | 146 | #100 |
| 1886 | — | — | 127 | #116 |
| 1885 | — | — | 138 | #105 |
| 1884 | — | — | 175 | #91 |
| 1883 | — | — | 139 | #99 |
| 1882 | — | — | 157 | #92 |
| 1881 | — | — | 145 | #90 |
| 1880 | — | — | 119 | #113 |
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).