Girls' name · since 2013
Emerlee
Since 2013, U.S. Social Security records show 164 babies named Emerlee, peaking in 2025. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #21,828 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,536 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 164
- born since 2013
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Emerlee is the #5536 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 164 recorded since 2013.
Emerlee has 164 recorded births among girls since 2013, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #5536 as of the latest data, more common than 68% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2013 to 2025.
- #21,828 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,536 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 164 born since 2013
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emerlee ranks #21,828 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,536 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 164 born since 2013, peaking in the 2020s.
- #21,828 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,536 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 164
- born since 2013
- 2020s
- peak decade
Emerlee's 164 recorded births place it above 69.75% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Emerlee compares
164 33rd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Emerlee's all-time total is 56% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Emerlee | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 164 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 23 | 21 | 19,840 |
Emerlee's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Emerlee's full recorded timeline at 2019, 71% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 29% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2013, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 23 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Emerlee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 23
- Annual births at peak, across 13 years of records
Emerlee by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (103 births, 63% of the file).
2020s was Emerlee's strongest decade.
103 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Emerlee births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
61 births
- 2020s
2020s
103 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 103 births (63% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emerlee: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2013–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Emerlee draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.