Emberlynn
Emberlynn was given to 281 girls in 2025, #929 among girls’ names; 2,961 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,940 Americans named Emberlynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emberlynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emberlynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emberlynn is “a female given name.”
20th-century coinage: Ember + -lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emberlynn?
#929 among girls’ names, 2025
Emberlynn rose from #1,887 in 2015 to #929 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.17 per 1,000.
354 babies in 2023, the peak
Emberlynn peaked in 2023, when 354 girls were given it, #797 among girls’ names. The 281 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 281 | #929 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 308 | #876 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 354 | #797 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 303 | #908 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 271 | #960 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 183 | #1,242 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,223 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 177 | #1,289 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 166 | #1,389 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,663 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,887 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,481 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,221 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,840 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,996 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,642 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,513 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,202 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,131 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,994 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,488 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,807 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,978 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emberlynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emberlynn 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 Emberlynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emberlynn, and how old are they?
2,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,961 Americans ever recorded as Emberlynn. The median Emberlynn alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 1,058 people named Emberlynn (1,058 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,299 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 329 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Emberlynn born?
The states with the most babies named Emberlynn are Texas, Ohio and Michigan, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 26 | #1,072 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 25 | #453 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 18 | #466 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 13 | #759 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #353 | 2.4× |
| Missouri | 11 | #527 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,272 | 0.5× |
| California | 10 | #1,997 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #925 | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 9 | #461 | 2.2× |
Where Emberlynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emberlynn is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 2003 it was given 2.2 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 Emberlynn 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, Emberlynn is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 281 of their 455 babies (62%), 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 Emberlynn
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 Emberlynn and names like it
- Compare Emberlynn and EmberlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmberlynn peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emberlynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Emberlynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emberlynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.