Emaline
Emaline was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,800 among girls’ names; 1,901 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Emaline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emaline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emaline mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emaline is “a female given name.”
Rare non-standard variant of Emmeline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emaline?
#4,800 among girls’ names, 2025
Emaline fell from #2,722 in 2015 to #4,800 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 36.4 to 17.4 per million.
73 babies in 2016, the peak
Emaline peaked in 2016, when 73 girls were given it, #2,490 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,800 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,191 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,289 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,724 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,896 | 23.2 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,461 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,688 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,973 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,978 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,490 | 41.2 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,722 | 36.4 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,050 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,607 | 38.8 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,226 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,366 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,839 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,261 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,297 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,414 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,287 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,970 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,743 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,137 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,475 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,346 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,037 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,360 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,691 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,256 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,173 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,268 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,249 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,243 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,828 | 3.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,975 | 2.7 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,642 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,612 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,111 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,431 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,556 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,315 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,852 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,606 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,538 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,982 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,525 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,481 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,072 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,237 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,614 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,952 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,367 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,527 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,766 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,569 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,974 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,958 | 16.8 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,284 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,782 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,826 | 18.4 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,690 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,698 | 20.8 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,883 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,321 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,222 | 33.6 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,242 | 32.0 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,410 | 25.9 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,232 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,697 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,561 | 23.6 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,547 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,642 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,480 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,085 | 42.9 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,068 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,106 | 41.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,543 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,362 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,336 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,389 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,659 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,247 | 34.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,758 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,479 | 26.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,568 | 23.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,656 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 12 | #950 | 51.4 |
| 1894 | 11 | #964 | 49.3 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,330 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,248 | 32.3 |
| 1889 | 8 | #971 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 9 | #915 | 50.4 |
| 1886 | 7 | #924 | 48.4 |
| 1885 | 6 | #958 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emaline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emaline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emaline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emaline, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 62% of the 1,901 Americans ever recorded as Emaline. The median Emaline alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 993 people named Emaline (993 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 989 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 37 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 436 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 646 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,391 babies since 1880, Emaline is the fourth most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 645 babies (4.3%), 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 Emaline
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 Emaline and names like it
- Compare Emaline and EmmalineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Emaline.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emaline alive today were born 2013-2025.
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