Emalee
Emalee was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,010 among girls’ names; 3,814 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,730 Americans named Emalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emalee?
#8,010 among girls’ names, 2025
Emalee fell from #1,865 in 2015 to #8,010 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 61.6 to 8.1 per million.
236 babies in 2005, the peak
Emalee peaked in 2005, when 236 girls were given it, #1,027 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,010 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,721 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,022 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,210 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,181 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,576 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,057 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,918 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,611 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,371 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,865 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,842 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,782 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,862 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 135 | #1,606 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 150 | #1,519 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,464 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,496 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 187 | #1,278 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 236 | #1,027 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,200 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 205 | #1,079 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 147 | #1,325 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 155 | #1,268 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,518 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,399 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,739 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,708 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,766 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,900 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,063 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,902 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,245 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,484 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,814 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,115 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,706 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,651 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,510 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,020 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,549 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,640 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,458 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,950 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,640 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,677 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,425 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,051 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emalee, and how old are they?
3,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,814 Americans ever recorded as Emalee. The median Emalee alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 3,181 people named Emalee (3,172 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 613 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 724 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Emalee born?
The states with the most babies named Emalee are Texas, California and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 317 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 262 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 124 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 114 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 99 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 77 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 76 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 71 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Emalee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,849 babies since 1880, Emalee is the fourth most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 366 babies (3.6%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Emalee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Emalee and names like it
- Compare Emalee and EmilieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmalee peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emalee since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Emalee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emalee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.