Emogene
Emogene was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 4,871 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emogene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emogene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,955, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
277 babies in 1927, the peak
Emogene peaked in 1927, when 277 girls were given it, #413 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #13,955 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,274 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,409 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,966 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,017 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 15 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,390 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,655 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,724 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,038 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,467 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 56 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 48 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 71 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 60 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 97 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 82 | #761 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 83 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 95 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 111 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 115 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 123 | #588 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 155 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 196 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1931 | 164 | #506 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 233 | #441 | 0.21 |
| 1929 | 203 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1928 | 251 | #427 | 0.22 |
| 1927 | 277 | #413 | 0.23 |
| 1926 | 222 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1925 | 216 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1924 | 226 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1923 | 173 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 172 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1921 | 161 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1920 | 131 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 107 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 116 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 91 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 77 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 54 | #895 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 52 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 48 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 32 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 20 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 20 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 17 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,579 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emogene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emogene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emogene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emogene, and how old are they?
An estimated 765 Americans named Emogene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 84 years old and half are between 77 and 90. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,175 people named Emogene (1,170 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,313 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.
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 Emogene born?
The states with the most babies named Emogene are Kentucky, West Virginia and Arkansas, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and West Virginia and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 471 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| West Virginia | 446 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| Arkansas | 305 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Tennessee | 232 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 226 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 200 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 161 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 132 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 122 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 121 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Emogene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emogene is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 5.1 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 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 Emogene 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 5,413 babies since 1880, Emogene is the most given (90% of them).
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 Emogene
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 Emogene and names like it
- Compare Emogene and EmmageneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEmogene peaked in 1927.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emogene since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Emogene.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Emogene alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with EMost given first.