Emerson
Emerson stands at #122 nationally in 2025, with the curve still pointing up. The records carry it back to 1880, but its real era is now, 34,050 American children have carried it so far.
Emerson’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Emerson, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Emerson since 1880
Emerson stands at its girls' all-time peak, #122, right now. Emerson stands at its boys' all-time peak, #254, right now.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Emerson is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Emerson runs strongest in New Hampshire at 0.55% in 2025, then Maine and South Carolina.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Emerson
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Eliza
#115 in 2025 · Hebrew
Emersyn
#138 in 2025
Elliana
#139 in 2025
Emilio
#154 in 2025 · Latin
Everly
#91 in 2025
Everett
#77 in 2025
Everleigh
#194 in 2025
Emery
#74 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with E · all names
About Emerson
How popular is the name Emerson?
Emerson stands at #122 nationally in 2025, with the curve still pointing up. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Emerson have a meaning on record?
There is no citable gloss for Emerson in our public-domain source. We show the chart, the related names and the kit, and leave the etymology to a reference you can check.
What names go with Emerson?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Eliza, Emersyn and Elliana, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Emerson’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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