Emil
Emil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 158 births. Its best rank was 90th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1580.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19171,004 births
- Best rank
- #90in 1881
- Since 1880
- 32,939people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,939 boys have been named Emil in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 1,004 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 104 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Emil | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,434 | |
| 1890s | 1,438 | |
| 1900s | 1,319 | |
| 1910s | 6,701 | |
| 1920s | 7,170 | |
| 1930s | 3,518 | |
| 1940s | 2,498 | |
| 1950s | 1,860 | |
| 1960s | 1,267 | |
| 1970s | 963 | |
| 1980s | 809 | |
| 1990s | 837 | |
| 2000s | 1,047 | |
| 2010s | 1,241 | |
| 2020s | 837 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Emil was the 137th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Emil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ferdinandpeak 1918
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Roscoepeak 1920
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Omerpeak 1918
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Lymanpeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.