Girls' name · since 2015
Emerleigh
Emerleigh has 100 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #27,098 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,732 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 100
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Emerleigh currently ranks #11732 among girls' names in America, with 100 babies recorded since 2015.
Emerleigh has 100 recorded births among girls since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11732 as of the latest data, more common than 32% 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 2015 to 2025.
- #27,098 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,732 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 100 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emerleigh ranks #27,098 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,732 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 100 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #27,098 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,732 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 100
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Emerleigh's 100 recorded births place it above 62.42% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Emerleigh compares
100 25th 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
Emerleigh's all-time total is 73% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Emerleigh | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 100 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 18 | 21 | 19,840 |
Emerleigh's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Emerleigh's full recorded timeline at 2021, 65% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 35% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2015, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 18 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Emerleigh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Emerleigh by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (72 births, 72% of the file).
2020s was Emerleigh's strongest decade.
72 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 72% of all-time use.
Emerleigh births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 28
2010s
28 births
- 2020s
2020s
72 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 72 births (72% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emerleigh: 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, 2015–2025 (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 Emerleigh 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.