Emelie
Emelie was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,133 among girls’ names; 2,612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Emelie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emelie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emelie mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Emelie is “a female given name, variant of Emilie and Amelie”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emelie?
#5,133 among girls’ names, 2025
Emelie fell from #3,867 in 2015 to #5,133 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 15.6 per million.
76 babies in 2003, the peak
Emelie peaked in 2003, when 76 girls were given it, #2,242 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,133 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,497 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,131 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,064 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,182 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,239 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,349 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,974 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,942 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (131)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,867 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,150 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,945 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,069 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,147 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,846 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,903 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,089 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,868 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,063 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,676 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,428 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,242 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,528 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,208 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,466 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,007 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,856 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,735 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,447 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,106 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,245 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,167 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,700 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,850 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,559 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,286 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,684 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,124 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,541 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,874 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,220 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,953 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,431 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,868 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,073 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,446 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,652 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,104 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,966 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,162 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,895 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,076 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,037 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,552 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,225 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,199 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,176 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,542 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,100 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,048 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,903 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,131 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,148 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,464 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,246 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,408 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,909 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,479 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,260 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,450 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,670 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,832 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,098 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,733 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,046 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,335 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,207 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,899 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,040 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,656 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,480 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,169 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 14 | #734 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 12 | #766 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 15 | #580 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 7 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 7 | #874 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 6 | #850 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 11 | #576 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 6 | #766 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 10 | #556 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emelie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emelie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 131 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emelie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emelie, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 2,612 Americans ever recorded as Emelie. The median Emelie alive today is 21 years old; half are between 12 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,085 people named Emelie (2,081 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,841 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 78 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 79 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 313 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 847 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 560 |
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 Emelie born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,243 | 1.3× |
Where Emelie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emelie is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Emelie 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 166,066 babies since 1880, Emelie is the seventh most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 6,108 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Emelie
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 Emelie and names like it
- Compare Emelie and EmiliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmelie peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emelie since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Emelie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Emelie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emelie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.