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Emerson

Pronounced /ˈɛmɚ.sən/

Rank in 2024
#270
Born in 2024
1,270
Peak year
2019 · #269
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,965 in 2024 (#151)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,270 boys were named Emerson, about 1 in every 1,351.
  • It peaked in 2019 with 1,343 babies, ranked #269.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 32,138 boys have been named Emerson since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Emerson per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.7
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,862 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Silent: 2,207 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,814 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,077 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,654 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,431 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 14,680 babies, 0.68 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Emery + -son.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • (rare) A female given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈɛmɚ.sən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Emerson, CC BY-SA 4.0.