The Most Popular New Emoji of 2025 Is...
To kick off our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations ahead of the day itself on July 17, Emojipedia has analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2024 is now most popular, as part of the World Emoji Awards.
To kick off our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations ahead of the day itself on July 17, Emojipedia has analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2024 is now most popular, as part of the World Emoji Awards.
A total of eight new emojis were approved by Unicode in 2024 as part of Emoji 16.0:
- Face with Bags Under Eyes
- Fingerprint
- Splatter
- Root Vegetable
- Leafless Tree
- Harp
- Shovel
- 🇨🇶 Flag: Sark
Since being officially approved on September 10 last year, support for these eight new emoji concepts has been implemented by Apple, Google, Samsung, WhatsApp, and Discord (via its offshoot of the original Twemoji set).
Most Popular New Emoji Award 2025
Based on Emojipedia's own site data, the most popular of these eight new emojis are as follows:
- 🥇 1st place: Face with Bags Under Eyes
- 🥈 2nd place: Splatter
- 🥉 3rd place: Shovel
- Runner up (4th): Fingerprint
- Runner up (5th): Harp
Previous winners of this award are as follows:
- 2024: 🙂↔️ Head Shaking Horizontally from 2023's Emoji 15.1
- 2023: 🩷 Pink Heart from 2022's Emoji 15.0
- 2022: 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears from 2021's Emoji 14.0
- 2021: ❤️🔥 Heart on Fire from 2020's Emoji 13.1
- 2020: 🤍 White Heart from 2019's Emoji 12.0
- 2019: 🥰 Smiling Face With Hearts from 2018's Emoji 11.0
You can read more about the World Emoji Awards on WorldEmojiAwards.com.
Most Anticipated Emoji Award 2025
Today's announcement is just the first of four award announcements for World Emoji Day 2025. We've three further awards to announce, with one of these being the Most Anticipated Emoji Award.
Unicode is expected to approve the draft candidates for Emoji 17.0 on September 9 of this year, alongside Unicode 17.0.
You can view all the proposed emoji concepts from Emoji 17.0 below, as well as vote for the one you're most looking forward to:
This isn't part of the approval process; it's just a fun way to gauge which draft emojis people are most keen to use. So get voting, and the winner will be revealed on World Emoji Day (July 17).
Previous winners for the Most Anticipated Emoji Award include:
- 2024: Face with Bags Under Eyes (this year's Most Popular New Emoji)
- 2023: 🙂↔️ Head Shaking Horizontally
- 2022: 🩷 Pink Heart (one of the most popular emoji requests of the previous decade)
- 2021: 🫠 Melting Face
- 2020: 🥲 Smiling Face with Tear
As revealed late last year, the Emoji 17.0 draft list contains 164 new emoji recommendations that break down as follows:
- A distorted face, for which the sample design shown above was taken from the Emoji Kitchen
- A "fight cloud" symbol, as seen in cartoons and comic books
- A ballet dancer, with the usual five skin tone modifier variations
- An apple core
- An orca, also known as a "killer whale"
- A "hairy creature", inspired by various global "Big Foot"-esque cryptids
- A trombone
- A landslide
- A treasure chest
- Multiple skin tone support options for the various 👯 People With Bunny Ears
- Multiple skin tone support options for the various 🤼 People Wrestling
Assuming all are approved, Emoji 17.0 will bring the total number of emojis recommended for general interchange (RGI) by Unicode to 3,954.
Read More
- Draft Emoji List for 2025/2026 Revealed (November 2024)
- What's New In Unicode 16.0 (September 2024)
- What’s New on World Emoji Day 2024 (July 2024)
- New Emojis In 2024-2025 (July 2024)