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Emad

#2,950 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Imad

Emad has been given to 847 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,950 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Emad, 2025

1 in 78,900

Emad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emad: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Imad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emad means

Emad is a alternate transcription of Imad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Emad → Imad. The family’s meaning is “support, pillar”, recorded in the naming reference for Imad.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Imad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 847 boys were recorded with the name Emad between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,702 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,088 in 2020 to #2,950 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,116 in 2015 to #2,950 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Emad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 40,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,950
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emad was born before 2007 — so the typical Emad is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
847
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (213).

Is Emad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+590
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,138
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,166
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (42)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,702
1983

Spellings of Emad

Emad is not the most common spelling — Evan is, with 26.1% against Emad's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Emad is used

Across 1910–2025, Emad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 459,901 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Emad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emad around the world

Where Emad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2024
    #3,139
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Emad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,950
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,138
Best rank ever
#2,702
1983
Peak year
2025
42 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
847
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Emad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Emad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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