Emely — #425 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Emely

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,272 babies named Emely between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Emely currently holds the #425 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 1,092 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emely performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 9,218 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Emely shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,661 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Emely in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emely in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 23,272 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.