Emperor
#8,444 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Emperor has been given to 111 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #8,444 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Emperor, 2025
1 in 368,000
Emperor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Emperor?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,444
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Emperor sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emperor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Emperors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Emperor was born before 2019 — so the typical Emperor is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 48.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 111
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Emperor 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
- −2,383
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −795
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.90×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 60.0%
- Peak was 2021 (15)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Emperor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Emperor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Emperor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.