Emelin
Emelin was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,599 among girls’ names; 854 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emelin?
#7,599 among girls’ names, 2025
Emelin fell from #6,297 in 2015 to #7,599 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 8.7 per million.
62 babies in 2006, the peak
Emelin peaked in 2006, when 62 girls were given it, #2,823 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,599 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,025 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,238 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,802 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,772 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,402 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,259 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,352 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,122 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,297 | 11.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 20 | #6,272 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,708 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,141 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,110 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,129 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,314 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,132 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,102 | 29.1 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,823 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,222 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,814 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,962 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,474 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,640 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,833 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,598 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,428 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,077 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,864 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,075 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,769 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,157 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,830 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,147 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 845 Americans named Emelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 812 people named Emelin (793 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 765 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 Emelin born?
The states with the most babies named Emelin are California, Texas and New York, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 141 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 25 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 20 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Emelin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emelin is most over-represented in California: since 1991 it was given 1.2 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 Emelin 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 9,072 babies since 1880, Emelin is the fourth most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 224 babies (6.3%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Emelin
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 Emelin and names like it
- Compare Emelin and EmelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmelin peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Emelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.