Emelina
Emelina was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,869 among girls’ names; 804 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emelina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emelina?
#2,869 among girls’ names, 2025
Emelina rose from #4,430 in 2015 to #2,869 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.9 to 36.7 per million.
59 babies in 2025, the peak
Emelina peaked in 2025, when 59 girls were given it, #2,869 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 41 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,869 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,714 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,613 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,401 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,998 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,362 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,371 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,052 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,322 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,562 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,430 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,852 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,559 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,005 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,792 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,223 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,266 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,478 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,900 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,874 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,642 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,167 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,681 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,615 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,179 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,126 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,869 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,257 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,918 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,237 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,911 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,158 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,828 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,987 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,943 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,661 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,367 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,048 | 6.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,420 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,325 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,228 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,900 | 3.0 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,749 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,341 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,451 | 5.0 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,180 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,762 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,285 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emelina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emelina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emelina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emelina, and how old are they?
An estimated 757 Americans named Emelina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,399 people named Emelina (1,396 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times 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.
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 Emelina born?
The states with the most babies named Emelina are Florida, California and New York, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,750 | 0.4× |
| California | 6 | #2,879 | 1.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,891 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,449 | 0.5× |
Where Emelina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emelina is most over-represented in California: since 1919 it was given 1.1 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 Emelina 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 17,371 babies since 1880, Emelina is the fifth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 810 babies (7.3%), the fourth 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 Emelina
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 Emelina and names like it
- Compare Emelina and EmmelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmelina peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emelina since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Emelina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emelina alive today were born 2013-2025.
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