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Baby name
Emile
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7% girls / 93% boys
Origin of the name
Émile is the French form of Emil, from the Latin Aemilius, the name of a Roman family. Rousseau used it as the title of his treatise on education, Emile.
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Classic name
8,641births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 478rank at its peak, in 1922
Where babies named Emile are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Emile is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Emile is most common in Louisiana (24.6 times), Rhode Island (13.3) and Maine (13.1), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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Classic name
648births since 1880
1980sgeneration
No. 4835rank at its peak, in 1988
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Girls and boys, decade by decade
| Decade | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 0% | 100% |
| 1890s | 2% | 98% |
| 1900s | 4% | 96% |
| 1910s | 4% | 96% |
| 1920s | 4% | 96% |
| 1930s | 3% | 97% |
| 1940s | 2% | 98% |
| 1950s | 4% | 96% |
| 1960s | 2% | 98% |
| 1970s | 8% | 92% |
| 1980s | 27% | 73% |
| 1990s | 30% | 70% |
| 2000s | 22% | 78% |
| 2010s | 6% | 94% |
| 2020s | 0% | 100% |