girls:
58 births since 1953
#5658 (1st percentile)
boys:
49.2k births since 1882
#506 (89th percentile)
overall:
49.2k births since 1882
#1087 (86th percentile)
The name Emilio is the #1,087 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 49,229 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 86.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #506 (89.0% percentile) for all time with 49,171 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,658 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1953.
Emilio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1953 for girls). Birth data for Emilio is available in 132 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (132 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Emilio has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Emilio reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 80.7% percentile (ranked #177) with 1,099 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,099 births per million (ranked 80.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Emilio is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #177 (80.7% percentile) with 1,099 births per million.
For girls, Emilio reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emilio".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Emilio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.6% confident that Emilio is pronounced as eh-MIH-lee-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MEE-lee-oh, at 15.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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