Emersyn
Emersyn was given to 2,111 girls in 2025, #138 among girls’ names; 22,572 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,400 Americans named Emersyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emersyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emersyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emersyn is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
Re-spelling of Emerson.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emersyn?
#138 among girls’ names, 2025
Emersyn rose from #394 in 2015 to #138 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.47 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,146 babies in 2022, the peak
Emersyn peaked in 2022, when 2,146 babies were given it (2,116 girls, #135 among girls’ names). The 2,146 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 100% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,111 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 1,914 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,935 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2,116 | #135 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 1,900 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 1,733 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,921 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 1,896 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 1,333 | #241 | 0.77 |
| 2016 | 1,073 | #304 | 0.61 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 831 | #394 | 0.47 |
| 2014 | 745 | #427 | 0.42 |
| 2013 | 598 | #502 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 457 | #626 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 394 | #705 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 283 | #918 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 262 | #1,010 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 213 | #1,194 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 168 | #1,417 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,508 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,242 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,023 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,823 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,666 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,705 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,640 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,929 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emersyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,572 Americans recorded as Emersyn, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 2,111 girls and 35 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emersyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emersyn, and how old are they?
22,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 22,572 Americans ever recorded as Emersyn. The median Emersyn alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 9,870 people named Emersyn (9,735 women and girls, 135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,060 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,300 |
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 Emersyn born?
The states with the most babies named Emersyn are Texas, Ohio and North Carolina, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 187 | #177 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 131 | #65 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 106 | #94 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 99 | #182 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 97 | #100 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 93 | #89 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 88 | #79 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 88 | #61 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 68 | #144 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 68 | #78 | 1.6× |
Where Emersyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emersyn is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1998 it was given 2.3 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 Emersyn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 96,300 babies since 1880, Emersyn is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,146 of their 5,999 babies (36%), again the second 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 Emersyn
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 Emersyn and names like it
- Compare Emersyn and EmersonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmersyn peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emersyn since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Emersyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Emersyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emersyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.