Emerald — #707 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Emerald

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,146 babies named Emerald between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Emerald currently holds the #707 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 396 babies received it in a single year. Emerald is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 505 additional births since 1908.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emerald performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,212 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Emerald shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,251 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Emerald in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emerald in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,146 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.