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Boy's name · #254 in the US (2025) · Trending
40% boys · 60% girls — About 60% of babies named Emerson in recent years have been girls. Emerson →
Emerson is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1880, it stood at #254 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 34,000 boys have been named Emerson along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#334 in Ecuador (2025) · #406 in New Zealand (2025) · #513 in Scotland (2025) · #522 in England & Wales (2025) · #239 in Canada (2024).
Among 258 notable people named Emerson:
Sports figures appear 2.18× more often than among typical names — e.g. Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racing driver (born 1946).
Similar names: Marcelo · Emilio · Eliseo · Emiliano · Gerson · Anderson
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