Emile
Emile is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 82 births. Its best rank was 283rd, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 820.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922167 births
- Best rank
- #283in 1882
- Since 1880
- 9,218people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,570 boys have been named Emile in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 167 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 648 girls have also been given it, 7.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Emile | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 233 | |
| 1890s | 247 | |
| 1900s | 264 | |
| 1910s | 1,093 | |
| 1920s | 1,420 | |
| 1930s | 971 | |
| 1940s | 830 | |
| 1950s | 671 | |
| 1960s | 520 | |
| 1970s | 392 | |
| 1980s | 328 | |
| 1990s | 320 | |
| 2000s | 396 | |
| 2010s | 511 | |
| 2020s | 374 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Emile was the 478th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Emile
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Valentinepeak 1918
- Crawfordpeak 1924
- Albertpeak 1921
- Walterpeak 1918
- Monroepeak 1921
- Lymanpeak 1917
- Horacepeak 1921
- Arthurpeak 1921
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.