Emelyn
Emelyn was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,303 among girls’ names; 2,783 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,620 Americans named Emelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emelyn?
#2,303 among girls’ names, 2025
Emelyn fell from #1,898 in 2015 to #2,303 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 59.9 to 49.2 per million.
129 babies in 2013, the peak
Emelyn peaked in 2013, when 129 girls were given it, #1,648 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,303 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,539 | 43.2 |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,130 | 56.1 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,536 | 42.7 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,136 | 53.6 |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,160 | 52.0 |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,891 | 63.2 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,983 | 58.2 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,891 | 62.0 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,059 | 54.2 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,898 | 59.9 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,758 | 66.1 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,648 | 73.5 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,848 | 61.9 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,829 | 62.5 |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,017 | 55.7 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,922 | 59.3 |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,037 | 53.9 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,520 | 38.5 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,137 | 47.9 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,320 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,242 | 42.5 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,324 | 39.4 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,648 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,743 | 30.0 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,224 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,458 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,059 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,079 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,653 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,722 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,811 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,871 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,255 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,712 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,053 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,008 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,623 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,214 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,955 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,472 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,753 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,491 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,605 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,849 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,331 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,524 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,871 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,332 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,868 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,861 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,901 | 3.0 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,845 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,484 | 2.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,539 | 4.4 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,402 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,750 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,221 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,527 | 6.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,077 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,144 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,207 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,508 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,235 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,144 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,207 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,286 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,998 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,608 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,633 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,540 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,315 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,336 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emelyn, and how old are they?
2,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,783 Americans ever recorded as Emelyn. The median Emelyn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,461 people named Emelyn (2,447 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,181 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 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 35 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 184 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,240 |
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 Emelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Emelyn are California, New York and Texas, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,334 | 1.1× |
| New York | 8 | #1,567 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,721 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,258 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,526 | 0.3× |
Where Emelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emelyn is most over-represented in California: since 1913 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 Emelyn 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 17,977 babies since 1880, Emelyn is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 438 babies (18%), 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 Emelyn
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 Emelyn and names like it
- Compare Emelyn and EmmalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmelyn peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Emelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.