Emberlyn
Emberlyn was given to 169 girls in 2025, #1,320 among girls’ names; 2,196 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Emberlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emberlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emberlyn?
#1,320 among girls’ names, 2025
Emberlyn rose from #1,911 in 2015 to #1,320 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.11 per 1,000.
238 babies in 2021, the peak
Emberlyn peaked in 2021, when 238 girls were given it, #1,058 among girls’ names. The 169 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,320 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 185 | #1,260 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 181 | #1,270 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,180 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 238 | #1,058 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 149 | #1,452 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,407 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 149 | #1,491 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,843 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 106 | #1,911 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,220 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,540 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,601 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,184 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,330 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,265 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,880 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,486 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,200 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,057 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,043 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,818 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emberlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emberlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emberlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emberlyn, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,196 Americans ever recorded as Emberlyn. The median Emberlyn alive today is 6 years old; half are between 4 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 938 people named Emberlyn (936 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 251 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,930 |
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 Emberlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Emberlyn are Texas, Ohio and Illinois, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,167 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 11 | #827 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 10 | #870 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,467 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 9 | #811 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 8 | #666 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,112 | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #593 | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 7 | #655 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #630 | 0.6× |
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 Emberlyn 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,292 babies since 1880, Emberlyn is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 169 of their 455 babies (37%), again the second 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 Emberlyn
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 Emberlyn and names like it
- Compare Emberlyn and EmberlynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmberlyn peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emberlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Emberlyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emberlyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.