Eman
Eman is given to both girls and boys: 64 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,703 among girls’ names and #4,435 among boys’, #3,893 among all names counting both); 2,573 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,540 Americans named Eman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eman mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Eman is “a diminutive of the male given name Emanuel”
[ˈɛman]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eman?
#2,703 among girls’ names, 2025
Eman rose from #2,943 in 2015 to #2,703 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 33.1 to 39.8 per million.
90 babies in 2024, the peak
Eman peaked in 2024, when 90 babies were given it (60 girls, #2,805 among girls’ names). The 87 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,703 | 23 | #4,435 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,805 | 30 | #3,718 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,738 | 18 | #5,303 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,871 | 19 | #5,081 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,565 | 11 | #7,238 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,985 | 14 | #6,058 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,188 | 23 | #4,373 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,122 | 16 | #5,601 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,064 | 8 | #9,086 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,114 | 10 | #7,758 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,943 | 6 | #11,082 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,554 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,594 | 6 | #11,137 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,386 | 8 | #9,104 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,921 | 10 | #7,654 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,269 | 7 | #9,979 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,209 | 6 | #11,421 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,779 | 5 | #13,114 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,799 | 7 | #10,081 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,895 | 8 | #8,954 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,790 | 6 | #10,481 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,427 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,587 | 7 | #8,941 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,424 | 7 | #8,719 |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,099 | 5 | #11,086 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,309 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,579 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,738 | 6 | #8,805 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,364 | 12 | #5,044 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,810 | 5 | #9,439 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,514 | 9 | #6,060 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,113 | 7 | #7,195 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,945 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,285 | 10 | #5,349 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,626 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,931 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,057 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,935 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,357 | 6 | #6,351 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,671 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,761 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,257 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,853 | 8 | #4,624 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,219 | 7 | #5,192 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,552 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,196 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,512 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,747 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,490 | 5 | #6,150 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,965 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,289 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,409 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,240 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,550 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Eman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,573 Americans recorded as Eman, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eman, and how old are they?
2,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,573 Americans ever recorded as Eman. The median Eman alive today is 20 years old; half are between 9 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 5,233 people named Eman (4,817 women and girls, 416 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 523 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 876 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eman born?
The states with the most babies named Eman are California, Texas and Virginia, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #3,241 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,042 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,083 | 0.7× |
| New York | 5 | #2,186 | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #888 | 0.1× |
Where Eman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eman is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1972 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,160 babies since 1880, Eman is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 170 babies (51%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eman
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eman and names like it
- Compare Eman and EmaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEman peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eman since 1910.
- Czech namesWiktionary’s origin for Eman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Eman.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eman alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.