Emely
Emely was given to 590 girls in 2025, #503 among girls’ names; 23,880 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,600 Americans named Emely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emely mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Emely is “a female given name, variant of Emilie and Amelie”
[ˈɛmɛlɪ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emely?
#503 among girls’ names, 2025
Emely fell from #431 in 2015 to #503 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.41 to 0.37 per 1,000.
1,092 babies in 2008, the peak
Emely peaked in 2008, when 1,092 girls were given it, #306 among girls’ names. The 590 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 590 | #503 | 0.37 |
| 2024 | 723 | #427 | 0.45 |
| 2023 | 729 | #424 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 702 | #446 | 0.43 |
| 2021 | 584 | #528 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 578 | #523 | 0.36 |
| 2019 | 741 | #431 | 0.44 |
| 2018 | 649 | #484 | 0.38 |
| 2017 | 743 | #428 | 0.43 |
| 2016 | 650 | #481 | 0.37 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 733 | #431 | 0.41 |
| 2014 | 768 | #417 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 727 | #417 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 785 | #397 | 0.45 |
| 2011 | 867 | #370 | 0.49 |
| 2010 | 998 | #319 | 0.56 |
| 2009 | 1,042 | #315 | 0.57 |
| 2008 | 1,092 | #306 | 0.58 |
| 2007 | 1,025 | #325 | 0.53 |
| 2006 | 1,068 | #309 | 0.56 |
| 2005 | 1,079 | #298 | 0.58 |
| 2004 | 1,006 | #315 | 0.55 |
| 2003 | 855 | #357 | 0.47 |
| 2002 | 745 | #394 | 0.41 |
| 2001 | 709 | #409 | 0.39 |
| 2000 | 597 | #465 | 0.33 |
| 1999 | 518 | #504 | 0.29 |
| 1998 | 412 | #588 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 332 | #662 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 355 | #634 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 256 | #778 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 146 | #1,203 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 158 | #1,128 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 101 | #1,539 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,607 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,991 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,028 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,550 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,964 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,174 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,815 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,258 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,174 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,600 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,035 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,471 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,749 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,483 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,033 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,079 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,531 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,284 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,363 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,867 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,889 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,976 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,678 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,315 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,493 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,111 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emely has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Emely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emely, and how old are they?
23,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 23,880 Americans ever recorded as Emely. The median Emely alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 18,465 people named Emely (18,409 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 185 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,860 |
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 Emely born?
The states with the most babies named Emely are California, Texas and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 84 | #392 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 82 | #410 | 1.2× |
| New York | 47 | #361 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 39 | #474 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 33 | #248 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 32 | #257 | 1.7× |
| Maryland | 30 | #170 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 27 | #409 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 26 | #436 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 19 | #414 | 0.6× |
Where Emely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emely is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1912 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 Emely 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 945,402 babies since 1880, Emely is the second most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 590 of their 6,694 babies (8.8%), 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 Emely
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 Emely and names like it
- Compare Emely and EmilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmely peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emely since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Emely: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Emely.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emely alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.