Girls' name · since 1999
Emara
Emara has 172 recorded births since 1999 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #21,370 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,733 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 172
- born since 1999
- 2020s
- peak decade
172 babies have been named Emara since 1999, making it today's #4733 girls' name.
Emara has 172 recorded births among girls since 1999, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #4733 as of the latest data, more common than 73% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2025.
- #21,370 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #4,733 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 172 born since 1999
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emara ranks #21,370 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,733 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 172 born since 1999, peaking in the 2020s.
- #21,370 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,733 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 172
- born since 1999
- 2020s
- peak decade
Emara's 172 recorded births place it above 70.41% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 1 jurisdictions, led by New York.
How Emara compares
172 34th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Emara's all-time total is 54% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Emara | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 172 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 29 | 21 | 19,840 |
Emara's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Emara's full recorded timeline at 2018, 68% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 32% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1999, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 29 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Emara popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 29
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Emara by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (96 births, 56% of the file).
2020s was Emara's strongest decade.
96 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Emara births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 28
2000s
28 births
- 2010s
2010s
43 births
- 2020s
2020s
96 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 96 births (56% of all-time use).
Emara by state
Where Emara concentrates geographically, total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 2.9% |
5 of 172 births nationwide.
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- New York records the most Emaras (5 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. New York names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emara: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1999–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Emara draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.