Emerson — #270 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Emerson

The Social Security Administration has registered 32,138 babies named Emerson between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Emerson currently holds the #270 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 1,343 babies received it in a single year. Emerson is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31,797 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emerson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10,580 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Emerson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,441 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Emerson in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emerson 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 32,138 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.