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World Emoji Day 2025: Here Are the Top 10 Emoji in the U.S.

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Today is World Emoji Day, and Emojipedia's dedicated Emojitracker has a real-time list of the emoji that are most popular in the United States and other countries. Here are the top 10 most popular emoji in the U.S.:

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The red heart is the number one emoji across all countries, followed by the checkmark, fire, sparkles, loudly crying face, and skull.

Emojipedia's Emojitracker tool shows the most popular 1,000 emoji globally and across select countries like the United States, UK, India, Brazil, Philippines, France, Germany, Australia, and Japan.

The tool used to aggregate data from Twitter, but it now tracks the emoji that are copied from Emojipedia and the GetEmoji websites in real time.

Earlier today, Apple announced the launch of a new Emoji-themed game that's available to Apple News+ subscribers, plus the Unicode Consortium confirmed the new Unicode 17 emoji that will come to iOS 26 in the future.

With ‌iOS 26‌, Apple will introduce a new emoji-inspired Genmoji feature that will let users combine two or more emoji characters together to generate a new image that can be used in Messages conversations.

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frownface
15 months ago
world emoji day.... good to see a day set aside to focus on what's really important
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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entropys
15 months ago
How many days are there which aren’t a “insert worthy cause/irrelevancy here” day?

Makes me feel like Statler or Waldorf
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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spicynujac
15 months ago
Theres no way whatever emoji #3 is, is more popular than 👍
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Oblivious.Robot
15 months ago
I refuse to believe that 🍑 and 🍆 did not make it to the top 10.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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UpsetTheAppleCart
15 months ago
Petition to add the skull emoji as a reaction here on macrumors
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JohnC1959
15 months ago

half the population in my country use iMessage and I think I have seen one Genmoji.
yeah, I'm very unlikely to use it. I use the basics that were around from the beginning and that's about it. I have about eight or so in my 'recently used' list that I keep going back to. Odd they actually have a day to celebrate these. Never saw a world punctuation day where we celebrate !!!!!! and maybe a few ,,,,,
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