The Unicode Consortium unveiled a new report showing the most-used emojis throughout 2021. The new emoji report shows that the smiley/emotion category was the most popular emoji choice overall, but which emoji are the most and least used?
Which emoji is the most popular in 2021?
Emoji of the Year, ? (Tears of Joy), came in at a solid 5% for 2021. According to the Unicode Consortium’s report, the heart emoji (❤️) was the second most used emoji this year.
Top 10 emojis based on the number of users worldwide: ? ❤️ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
What’s even more interesting is the top 100 emoji, made up of almost 82% of the emoji used in the world.
The most frequently used emoji are ones that have multiple concepts:
- ? Rocket Ship emoji has been used a lot for showing great progress at work and a representation of upcoming big changes.
- ? Flexed Biceps emoji is a symbol of strength and success. It’s often used to show strength, power, overcoming a struggle, exercising, boasting, etc.
- ? Butterfly has been the most popular Animal emoji among all, it represents nature, beauty, representative of change, beauty, nature, etc.
- ? Bouquet of Plant-Flower emoji has also been used for different occasions such as congratulations, romantic relationships, etc.
Which emoji is the least used in 2021?
Flags has been the least popular category and country flags has been the least popular subcategory, even though there are 258 flag emojis in total. The next largest subcategory is animals with 53 emojis in total.
Unicode has said that they’re looking to include more emoji and they want everyone who wants to propose a change to first read through the Unicode Guidelines.
