girls:
12 births since 1924
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1917
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
27 births since 1917
#7712 (0th percentile)
The name Emo is the #7,712 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1924.
Emo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Emo is available in 5 out of the 10 years between 1917 and 1926 (3 years for boys and 2 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 Emo has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (55.6% of all recorded births). In 1926, 0.0% of babies named Emo were boys.
For boys, Emo reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #517) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1925.
For girls, Emo reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #608) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emo".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Emo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Emo is pronounced as EE-moh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-moh, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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