Emmogene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Emmogene has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1931, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Emmogene, 1937
1 in 426,000
Emmogene over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Emmogene?
Emmogene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1937, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1937
- 1 in 426,000
- 5 of 2,130,660 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1937
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 295,373 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Emmogene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1937 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 295,373 children born in 1937 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmogene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Emmogenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmogene was born before 1929 — so the typical Emmogene is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 57.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 57.9% of all recorded uses (62).
Is Emmogene 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1931 (15)
- Years since peak
- 94
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Spellings of Emmogene
Emmogene is not the most common spelling — Imogene is, with 84.9% against Emmogene's 0.33%.
Where Emmogene is used
Across 1910–2025, Emmogene was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 435,377 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in —
- 2West Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Emmogene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Emmogene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Emmogene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Emmogene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.