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

[MacRumors]

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.:

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.

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

 

[entropys]

How many days are there which aren’t a “insert worthy cause/irrelevancy here” day?

Makes me feel like Statler or Waldorf

 

[Octavius8]

Can wait to never use Genmoji because nobody in my country uses iMessages and Apple don’t care about it

 

[JohnC1959]

Can wait to never use Genmoji because nobody in my country uses iMessages and Apple don’t care about it

what about RCS? You can use them for that.

 

[entropys]

half the population in my country use iMessage and I think I have seen one Genmoji.

 

[JohnC1959]

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 ,,,,,

 

[ghostface147]

Aw man, the middle finger isn’t used a lot? I just used it towards a friend because of her not complying.

 

[UpsetTheAppleCart]

Petition to add the skull emoji as a reaction here on macrumors

 

[frownface]

world emoji day.... good to see a day set aside to focus on what's really important

 

[Astuces iOS]

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.:

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.

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

What about Genmoji lmao ?

 

[klm9210]

What about Genmoji lmao ?

What about good ol’ fashioned kanji?

笑 means smile and looks like a happy camper

 

[spicynujac]

Theres no way whatever emoji #3 is, is more popular than 👍

 

[svish]

It is fun to see the top or maybe even trending emojis. Quite interesting to see the #3 and #6 entries in the top 10 list.

 

[Colin2012]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1171318008369246&id=100064731724463

 

[Avidos1]

so tired of the never ending addition of emojis to everything

 

[Oblivious.Robot]

I refuse to believe that 🍑 and 🍆 did not make it to the top 10.

 

[Boeingfan]

I can't wait for world boiled egg day, or world ingrown toenail day. It is so great living in the 21st century.

 

[KRBM]

Interesting from a sociologist perspective is that 😭 is #2 in the US and #29/#32 in Germany and France.

 

[Mark Hollis]

Absolutely. I really would like to read an analysis on why which emojis are used in certain countries. For example I have never seen anyone using the skull emoji here in Germany und don’t even know when I would use it tbh.

 

[JWD]

Theres no way whatever emoji #3 is, is more popular than 👍

I agree, definitely not more popular over thumbs up on iMessage, but they can’t look at that data. This survey was pulled from Twitter where a bunch of influencers and people selling stuff use it.

 

[veggiespam]

Frankly, I hate that auto-correct turns :- ) into . I like the text ones better.

(ノ°▽°)ノ︵┻━┻

edit: even the MR forum does the auto-correct. sigh.

 

[swm]

for me emojis are the modern representation of the lego figureheads with unique facial expressions.

 

[Chris Laarman]

Like veggiespam I prefer the text emoticons.
I can at least read them in a small font, and I can understand the basic ones.
I do use some three of them regularly, another five or so occasionally.

Whenever I read a graphical emoji, i must stare at the image, then try to get the meaning.
It reminds me of a vinyl album cover that I held some fifty years ago. That artist (Amon Düül II) had a message, so esotheric that they had to invent a language for it. No dictionary nor grammar sheet was included. So how could that message come across? Would it make sense to send a message that almost certainly will not be understood? (I'm entering religious territory now...)

So, to me Emoji Day means something like "What Message Do You Think I Want To Get Across Day".

 

[VulchR]

I still think we need a burning dumpster fire emoji and I am shocked we don't have one yet. (Yes, I know you can make a Genmoji of one, but it should be part of the standard set.)

 

[JEY]

I think I'm using emojis wrong.