Emil is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Emil is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1196 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,195 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 23,606 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Emil. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Emil is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Emil. This means that several boys named Emil have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Emil has reached its highest rank of 86 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1884. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Emil one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Emil was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Emil will be Emil. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Emil in 2022 – in fact 187 to be precise, confirming Emil is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #1,043 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2004, when only 79 baby boys were named Emil.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Emil is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Emil and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Emil, you can simply say:
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Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Emil sounds like this:
