Emerson

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Primarily a girl's name · Unisex โ€” 50% girls / 50% boys

Origin: English

Meaning

Emerson is an English given name, a transferred use of an English surname coming either from Anglo-Saxon Emars sunu, "Emar's son," or from "Emery's son." It is in use for both boys and girls. Spelling variants such as Emersyn are also in regular use.

From Wikipedia

Emerson first appears in the data in 2014 and has been recorded in 4 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 8 babies (rank #209 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Emerson

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Emerson yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

40
Total babies (all years)
4
Years in the data
8
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
20141#1,471
20158#209
20166#268
20175#289