Emersen
Emersen is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,005 among girls’ names and #7,828 among boys’, #5,935 among all names counting both); 1,175 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Emersen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emersen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emersen?
#4,005 among girls’ names, 2025
Emersen rose from #4,015 in 2015 to #4,005 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 22.4 per million.
68 babies in 2012, the peak
Emersen peaked in 2012, when 68 babies were given it (56 girls, #3,019 among girls’ names). The 46 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,005 | 10 | #7,828 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,410 | 9 | #8,523 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,285 | 9 | #8,438 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,843 | 9 | #8,498 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,753 | 7 | #10,030 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,638 | 10 | #7,681 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,294 | 5 | #12,710 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,123 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,938 | 10 | #7,746 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,540 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,015 | 10 | #7,647 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,505 | 11 | #7,188 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,415 | 10 | #7,682 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,019 | 12 | #6,732 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,997 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,089 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,170 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,897 | 5 | #13,117 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,139 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,064 | 5 | #12,603 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,822 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,974 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,134 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,314 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,411 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,790 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,989 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,494 | 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 Emersen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,175 Americans recorded as Emersen, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emersen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emersen, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,175 Americans ever recorded as Emersen. The median Emersen alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 915 people named Emersen (809 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 927 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 546 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 620 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 96,300 babies since 1880, Emersen is the fifth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 5,999 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Emersen
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 Emersen and names like it
- Compare Emersen and EmersonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmersen peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emersen since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Emersen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emersen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.