Emmerson — #2682 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Emmerson

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,413 babies named Emmerson between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Emmerson currently holds the #2682 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 171 babies received it in a single year. Emmerson is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 589 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emmerson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,307 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Emmerson shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 214 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Emmerson in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emmerson 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 2,413 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.