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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Emeka

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#8,447

up +80 places

2025 births

9

unchanged births

All-time births

481

2% of them in 2025

More common than

82%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1991
16 births
Best rank
#2,960
in 1983
First recorded
1974
#4,812 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2000
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
50 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199116#3,704Peak
  2. 200416#5,077
  3. 198315#2,960
  4. 199415#4,155
  5. 199815#4,477

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,960 in 1983 · peak births 16 in 1991

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 97% boys■ 3% girls

481 boys · 17 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Emeka has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.