Emalyn
Emalyn was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,480 among girls’ names; 1,873 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Emalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emalyn?
#4,480 among girls’ names, 2025
Emalyn fell from #1,331 in 2015 to #4,480 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 99.7 to 19.3 per million.
178 babies in 2015, the peak
Emalyn peaked in 2015, when 178 girls were given it, #1,331 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,480 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,596 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,439 | 28.7 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,832 | 36.6 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,172 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,350 | 46.4 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,019 | 56.6 |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,102 | 53.5 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,934 | 60.2 |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,528 | 83.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 178 | #1,331 | 99.7 |
| 2014 | 139 | #1,565 | 77.8 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,626 | 75.2 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,748 | 67.0 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,820 | 63.1 |
| 2010 | 117 | #1,765 | 65.8 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,470 | 41.9 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,798 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,766 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,980 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,620 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,301 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,281 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,218 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,068 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,137 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,361 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,165 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,074 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,174 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,109 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,943 | 2.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,911 | 3.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,208 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,427 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,443 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emalyn, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,873 Americans ever recorded as Emalyn. The median Emalyn alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,534 people named Emalyn (1,533 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,558 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 636 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
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 Emalyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,447 | 0.9× |
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 Emalyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Emalyn?
Emalyn is a less common spelling of Emmalyn: SSA has recorded 1,873 Emalyn and 8,847 Emmalyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,207 babies since 1880, Emalyn is the fourth most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 522 babies (5.9%), again the fourth most given.
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 Emalyn
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 Emalyn and names like it
- Compare Emalyn and EmmalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmalyn peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Emalyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emalyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.