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How popular is the name Emil?
Births per year, rank history and how many Emils are alive today.
Emil (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 771st in 2025 with 43 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2015, when 76 babies were given the name, the 506th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Emil you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Emils born in England and Wales are between 7 and 20, and there are at least 1,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Emil - on average, only one in every 253 such rooms contains a Emil.
How many babies are named Emil each year?
Where does Emil rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Emil most popular?
Emil peaked in 2015, when 76 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Emil?
At least 1,200 people named Emil born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Emil?
Most living Emils are between 7 and 20; the most common age is about 10.
Is Emil becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.