In 2025, 2,397 US boys were named Emilio, making it the 154th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3 places from #151 in 2024. That is 28 more than the 2,369 boys named Emilio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #151, reached in 2024. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,397, in 2025. For comparison, it was #304 in 2015 and #613 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emilio in 134 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 54,013 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 12,764 babies named Emilio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,879 US boys were named Emilio; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,397. In 2025 that was about 1 in 713 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emilio ranked highest in California in 2025, at #66 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Emil (33,230 babies since 1880), Emile (9,289 babies since 1880), Emily (898,296 babies since 1880) and Emilia (69,121 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emiel are summarised on this page.