Emile — #1914 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Emile

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,570 babies named Emile between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Emile currently holds the #1914 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 167 babies received it in a single year. Emile is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 648 additional births since 1891.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emile performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,420 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Emile shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 2,195 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Emile in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emile 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 8,570 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.