Emani — #1318 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Emani

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,167 babies named Emani between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Emani currently holds the #1318 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 276 babies received it in a single year. Emani is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 440 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emani performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,110 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Emani shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 618 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Emani in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emani in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,167 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.