Emerson Boy Name

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The name Emerson is of German origin, and means Emery's son. The table below indicates the number of times the name Emerson has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Emerson**
Use of the Name Emerson for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
11,366	3,937	2,597	1,741	1,140	524	261

The table below indicates the number of times the name Emerson has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Emerson**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	344	25
1881	377	20
1882	475	15
1883	384	20
1884	492	15
1885	446	17
1886	437	17
1887	428	16
1888	449	18
1889	383	22
1890	543	13
1891	379	21
1892	450	19
1893	408	20
1894	390	23
1895	430	21
1896	446	20
1897	589	13
1898	397	25
1899	427	19
1900	382	34
1901	374	25
1902	373	28
1903	383	26
1904	371	30
1905	341	36
1906	413	28
1907	334	41
1908	422	32
1909	373	41
1910	354	52
1911	357	59
1912	303	142
1913	404	114
1914	370	163
1915	354	229
1916	361	225
1917	369	229
1918	346	276
1919	351	264
1920	373	256
1921	394	237
1922	379	251
1923	398	224
1924	382	246
1925	393	231
1926	443	188
1927	445	187
1928	438	186
1929	518	129
1930	454	170
1931	520	123
1932	485	139
1933	508	123
1934	511	129
1935	548	110
1936	549	108
1937	540	116
1938	531	120
1939	586	97
1940	524	123
1941	558	115
1942	576	116
1943	596	112
1944	605	103
1945	657	84
1946	661	95
1947	632	118
1948	653	108
1949	638	114
1950	678	103
1951	658	113
1952	762	85
1953	719	99
1954	664	118
1955	827	78
1956	794	87
1957	780	93
1958	840	80
1959	826	85
1960	800	91
1961	901	72
1962	802	90
1963	813	87
1964	800	89
1965	852	75
1966	884	67
1967	862	69
1968	910	63
1969
1970	956	70
1971
1972	993	66
1973
1974
1975
1976	941	78
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984	940	88
1985	979	87
1986	914	100
1987
1988	1000	94
1989	976	110
1990	903	130
1991
1992	993	119
1993	949	128
1994
1995	941	139
1996	986	127
1997
1998	868	167
1999	894	168
2000	909	169
2001	759	224
2002	767	223	832	279
2003	709	263	766	322
2004	720	261	905	265
Totals:		11,366		866

During the last 125 years, parents have used Emerson as a boy's name about 92% of the time and less frequently (about 7% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Emerson appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 109 times during the last 125 years.

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