Emani
Emani was given to 160 girls in 2025, #1,375 among girls’ names; 6,783 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,720 Americans named Emani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emani?
#1,375 among girls’ names, 2025
Emani fell from #1,190 in 2015 to #1,375 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.10 per 1,000.
289 babies in 2019, the peak
Emani peaked in 2019, when 289 babies were given it (276 girls, #956 among girls’ names). The 174 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,375 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 175 | #1,315 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 212 | #1,148 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 249 | #1,030 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 237 | #1,064 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 259 | #984 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 276 | #956 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,373 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 169 | #1,365 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 191 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 212 | #1,190 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 250 | #1,038 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 235 | #1,058 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 223 | #1,116 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 181 | #1,305 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 209 | #1,161 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,360 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 231 | #1,117 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 218 | #1,166 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 212 | #1,153 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 182 | #1,246 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 171 | #1,261 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 203 | #1,085 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 186 | #1,122 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 192 | #1,102 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 183 | #1,115 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 201 | #1,016 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 187 | #1,051 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 186 | #1,030 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,349 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,611 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,570 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,006 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,118 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,711 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,689 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,783 Americans recorded as Emani, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 160 girls and 14 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emani, and how old are they?
6,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,783 Americans ever recorded as Emani. The median Emani alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,272 people named Emani (3,977 women and girls, 295 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 421 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,970 |
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 Emani born?
The states with the most babies named Emani are Texas, Florida and California, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,234 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 19 | #835 | 1.3× |
| California | 11 | #1,869 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | #872 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #855 | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #551 | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,294 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 6 | #720 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,024 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 6 | #842 | 0.3× |
Where Emani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emani is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1990 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Emani 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 12,336 babies since 1880, Emani is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 174 of their 302 babies (58%), again the 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 Emani
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 Emani and names like it
- Compare Emani and EmoniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmani peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emani since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Emani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.