girls:
648 births since 1891
#5068 (11th percentile)
boys:
8.5k births since 1880
#1278 (72nd percentile)
overall:
9.1k births since 1880
#2825 (63rd percentile)
The name Emile is the #2,825 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,135 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 63.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,278 (72.1% percentile) for all time with 8,487 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,068 (11.3% percentile) for all time with 648 births since 1891.
Emile has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1891 for girls).
The name Emile has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Emile reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 28.3% percentile (ranked #392) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 303 births per million (ranked 15.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Emile ranks #851 for boys (6.6% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 11.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Emile reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #796) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emile".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Emile", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Emil" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Emil..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Emile. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.1% confident that Emile is pronounced as eh-MEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ay-MEEL, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH0 M IY1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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