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Emmerson: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,365 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,365 in 2013; #2,623 in 2025. About 74% of babies named Emmerson in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,623 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,365.
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Emmerson: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,365 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 171 (2013).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Emmerson, making it the 2,623rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 51 places from #2,674 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 65 girls named Emmerson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,365, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 171. For comparison, it was #1,489 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Emmerson, making it the 4,437th most common boys’ name of the year, down 715 places from #3,722 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 30 boys named Emmerson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,029, reached in 1929. The most boys given the name in a single year was 30, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,609 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emmerson in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 9 babies. In all, 3,093 US babies have been given the name, 80% of them girls and 20% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,537 babies named Emmerson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 918 US girls were named Emmerson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 128. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emmerson ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,186 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emerson (67,571 babies since 1880), Emersyn (22,572 babies since 1880), Emmersyn (1,240 babies since 1880) and Emersen (1,175 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 Emmerson 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,186 | #769 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,605 | #1,213 |
| California | 5 | #3,247 | #1,760 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,455 | #1,648 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,623 | 23 | #4,437 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,674 | 30 | #3,722 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,428 | 14 | #6,301 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,430 | 27 | #4,020 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,193 | 25 | #4,147 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,981 | 30 | #3,599 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,901 | 25 | #4,149 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,942 | 29 | #3,731 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,726 | 26 | #4,021 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,675 | 29 | #3,713 |
| 2015 | 154 | #1,489 | 30 | #3,609 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,440 | 30 | #3,556 |
| 2013 | 171 | #1,365 | 22 | #4,369 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,595 | 9 | #8,361 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,863 | 21 | #4,550 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,714 | 9 | #8,334 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,645 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,721 | 14 | #6,165 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,929 | 10 | #7,765 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,853 | 9 | #8,203 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,609 | 11 | #6,771 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,637 | 7 | #9,218 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,889 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,291 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,002 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,703 | — | — |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,722 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,448 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,257 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,331 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,233 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,125 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,041 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,027 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,726 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,230 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,638 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,694 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,074 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,195 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,029 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,837 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,563 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,849 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,480 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,616 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,582 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,506 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #2,942 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,022 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,693 |
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).