Gender-neutral · #122 in 2025
Emerson
Emerson: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #122
- Born 2025
- 2,241
- Peak year
- 2025
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 girls born
Recent trend
Emerson has held steady: its share of girls born has barely moved over the last 10 years. 2025 is its highest share on record.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 60% of children named Emerson were recorded as girls and 40% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.