Emmerson
Emmerson is given to both girls and boys: 66 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,623 among girls’ names and #4,436 among boys’, #3,845 among all names counting both); 3,093 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,940 Americans named Emmerson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmerson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emmerson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emmerson is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
From Emery + -son.
/ˈɛmɚ.sən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emmerson?
#2,623 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmerson fell from #1,489 in 2015 to #2,623 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 86.3 to 41.1 per million.
193 babies in 2013, the peak
Emmerson peaked in 2013, when 193 babies were given it (171 girls, #1,365 among girls’ names). The 89 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,623 | 23 | #4,436 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,674 | 30 | #3,720 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,428 | 14 | #6,296 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,430 | 27 | #4,017 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,193 | 25 | #4,143 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,981 | 30 | #3,596 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,901 | 25 | #4,145 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,942 | 29 | #3,727 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,726 | 26 | #4,017 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,675 | 29 | #3,712 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 154 | #1,489 | 30 | #3,608 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,440 | 30 | #3,554 |
| 2013 | 171 | #1,365 | 22 | #4,367 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,595 | 9 | #8,355 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,863 | 21 | #4,548 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,714 | 9 | #8,328 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,645 | 14 | #6,190 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,721 | 14 | #6,160 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,929 | 10 | #7,761 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,853 | 9 | #8,197 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,605 | 11 | #6,765 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,633 | 7 | #9,212 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,612 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,909 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,884 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,284 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,996 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,697 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,716 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,441 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,251 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,329 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,232 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,124 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,040 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,026 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,725 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 6 | #3,230 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,637 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,692 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 7 | #3,073 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 7 | #3,194 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 15 | #2,028 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #3,835 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,562 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,847 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 12 | #2,478 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 7 | #3,615 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,579 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,504 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 9 | #2,941 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 8 | #3,021 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 9 | #2,692 |
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 Emmerson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,093 Americans recorded as Emmerson, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emmerson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmerson, and how old are they?
2,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,093 Americans ever recorded as Emmerson. The median Emmerson alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 2,548 people named Emmerson (1,982 women and girls, 566 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,384 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,730 |
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 Emmerson born?
The states with the most babies named Emmerson are Texas, California and Georgia, with 75% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,455 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #3,247 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,605 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,186 | 0.6× |
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 Emmerson 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 95,900 babies since 1880, Emmerson is the third most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 89 of their 5,965 babies (1.5%), again the third 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 Emmerson
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 Emmerson and names like it
- Compare Emmerson and EmersonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmerson peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmerson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Emmerson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Emmerson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmerson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.