Emon
Masculine · “protector of riches”
Emon is given to both — 617 boys and 90 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Emon may be an English spelling of Irish Éamon, which is Edmund — protector of riches, said in a language Edmund never reached.
How old is the name Emon?
Emon first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Emon alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 600 people named Emon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Emon most popular?
Emon peaked in 1998, reaching #3486 nationally. Today it ranks #4707, 1,221 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Emon
Ours, offered as ours. Ead, the Old English word for wealth and good fortune, opens a whole family of names — Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Edgar, Edith — and it is one of the elements that survived the Norman conquest when most English names did not, because Edward the Confessor was a saint and the Normans wanted the association. So a handful of Anglo-Saxon names outlived the language they belonged to.
Meaningscholars disagree
protector of riches
Irish Éamon renders English Edmund, from Old English ead, wealth or fortune, and mund, protection. Emon may alternatively be a Bengali or Japanese name entirely unrelated, and no single source is established.
Pronouncing Emon
EE-mon
Two syllables, first stressed. Irish Éamon gives AY-mun.
Nicknames for Emon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most boys named
- 202331 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3486reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- −19.2%21 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Emon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Éamon in Irish — related form
- Edmund in English — related form
Emons among us
people named Emon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 81,337 born in 2025 was named Emon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Juana test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Emon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Juana climbed just as high around 1920, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Juana's path sketches the road Emon is walking now.
Emon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Emon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Emon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning behind the Irish reading, with both elements attested.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- The source is genuinely uncertain between several unrelated traditions.
- The Emo short form now carries a strong subcultural association.
- Eamon is the standard Irish spelling and looks quite different.
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Masculine · #4707 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Emons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Emon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Emon in 2025?
- Emon ranks #4707 among US boy names in 2025, with 21 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Emon?
- About 1 in every 81,337 US boys born in 2025 was named Emon — 21 in all.
- Will my child share the name Emon with classmates?
- Emon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Emon
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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