Emile
Emile was given to 70 boys in 2025, #2,098 among boys’ names; 9,289 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,120 Americans named Emile and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 17 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emile by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emile mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emile is “a male given name from Latin of Latin origin, an anglicized spelling of French Émile.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emile?
#2,098 among boys’ names, 2025
Emile rose from #2,367 in 2015 to #2,098 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 28.7 to 41.0 per million.
171 babies in 1921, the peak
Emile peaked in 1921, when 171 babies were given it (165 boys, #476 among boys’ names). The 70 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,098 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 83 | #1,907 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,177 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,085 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 83 | #1,856 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,008 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,174 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,272 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,097 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,241 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #2,367 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,436 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,599 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,916 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,189 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,393 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,570 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,554 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 41 | #2,878 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,175 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,535 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,709 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,866 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #2,405 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,821 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,203 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,919 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,132 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,318 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,640 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,713 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,903 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 38 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 44 | #1,437 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 35 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,604 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,513 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 39 | #1,435 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 36 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 39 | #1,376 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,410 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 37 | #1,395 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,259 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,084 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,256 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,088 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,153 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,138 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,072 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,019 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 57 | #1,005 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 63 | #960 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 69 | #918 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,023 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 70 | #914 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 74 | #878 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,067 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 78 | #848 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 57 | #994 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 63 | #934 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 69 | #863 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 74 | #815 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 66 | #858 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 69 | #819 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 80 | #770 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 82 | #746 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 108 | #664 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 73 | #779 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 76 | #701 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 82 | #687 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 86 | #693 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 87 | #689 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 84 | #665 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 72 | #720 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 92 | #608 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 93 | #616 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 85 | #641 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 91 | #612 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 85 | #642 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 76 | #699 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 97 | #589 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 112 | #559 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 119 | #533 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 121 | #547 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 112 | #559 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 121 | #555 | 0.11 |
| 1927 | 137 | #522 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 131 | #529 | 0.12 |
| 1925 | 140 | #517 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 147 | #520 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 158 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 167 | #478 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 165 | #476 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 142 | #511 | 0.13 |
| 1919 | 150 | #488 | 0.15 |
| 1918 | 153 | #480 | 0.15 |
| 1917 | 138 | #491 | 0.15 |
| 1916 | 136 | #485 | 0.15 |
| 1915 | 127 | #492 | 0.15 |
| 1914 | 121 | #438 | 0.18 |
| 1913 | 95 | #439 | 0.19 |
| 1912 | 76 | #452 | 0.18 |
| 1911 | 54 | #386 | 0.24 |
| 1910 | 43 | #408 | 0.22 |
| 1909 | 36 | #409 | 0.22 |
| 1908 | 33 | #415 | 0.21 |
| 1907 | 23 | #489 | 0.16 |
| 1906 | 21 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1905 | 31 | #373 | 0.23 |
| 1904 | 28 | #394 | 0.22 |
| 1903 | 23 | #418 | 0.19 |
| 1902 | 18 | #512 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 20 | #425 | 0.19 |
| 1900 | 31 | #406 | 0.21 |
| 1899 | 23 | #387 | 0.22 |
| 1898 | 31 | #349 | 0.25 |
| 1897 | 24 | #387 | 0.21 |
| 1896 | 34 | #326 | 0.28 |
| 1895 | 21 | #431 | 0.18 |
| 1894 | 26 | #360 | 0.22 |
| 1893 | 25 | #362 | 0.22 |
| 1892 | 28 | #362 | 0.23 |
| 1891 | 14 | #483 | 0.14 |
| 1890 | 21 | #394 | 0.19 |
| 1889 | 27 | #340 | 0.24 |
| 1888 | 21 | #406 | 0.17 |
| 1887 | 21 | #357 | 0.21 |
| 1886 | 25 | #341 | 0.23 |
| 1885 | 19 | #416 | 0.18 |
| 1884 | 28 | #331 | 0.24 |
| 1883 | 23 | #346 | 0.22 |
| 1882 | 37 | #283 | 0.33 |
| 1881 | 20 | #378 | 0.20 |
| 1880 | 12 | #542 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emile a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,289 Americans recorded as Emile, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 70 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emile: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emile, and how old are they?
4,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 44% of the 9,289 Americans ever recorded as Emile. The median Emile alive today is 40 years old; half are between 17 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 5,190 people named Emile (719 women and girls, 4,471 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 310 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 890 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 616 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 699 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 734 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 868 |
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 Emile born?
The states with the most babies named Emile are Louisiana, Massachusetts and California, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Massachusetts are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 2,200 | #815 | 13.1× |
| Massachusetts | 697 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| California | 561 | #1,319 | 0.9× |
| New York | 440 | #1,333 | 0.6× |
| Maine | 285 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| Rhode Island | 240 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| New Hampshire | 161 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 85 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 72 | #1,792 | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Emile is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emile is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 13.1 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 boys’ 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 Emile 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 63,672 babies since 1880, Emile is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 2,486 babies (2.8%), 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 Emile
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 Emile and names like it
- Compare Emile and EmilioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEmile peaked in 1921.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emile since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Emile: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Emile.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Emile alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.