Emi
Emi was given to 303 girls in 2025, #882 among girls’ names; 4,360 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,240 Americans named Emi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emi?
#882 among girls’ names, 2025
Emi rose from #1,397 in 2015 to #882 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.19 per 1,000.
303 babies in 2025, the peak
Emi peaked in 2025, when 303 girls were given it, #882 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 260 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 303 | #882 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 260 | #996 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 213 | #1,138 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 202 | #1,192 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,295 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 161 | #1,358 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,361 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,417 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,756 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 174 | #1,360 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 168 | #1,397 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 200 | #1,223 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,589 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 156 | #1,461 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,606 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,833 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,923 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,561 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,186 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,565 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,677 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,753 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,067 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,161 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,775 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,637 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,057 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,315 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,468 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,750 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,893 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,305 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,132 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,273 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,461 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,917 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,419 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,052 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,018 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,920 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,177 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,542 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,279 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,868 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,448 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,178 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,750 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,723 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,009 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,206 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,533 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,522 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,093 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,657 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,577 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,120 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,285 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,455 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,333 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,995 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,762 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,072 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emi, and how old are they?
4,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,360 Americans ever recorded as Emi. The median Emi alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,595 people named Emi (4,450 women and girls, 145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,990 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Emi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 199 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 373 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,420 |
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 Emi born?
The states with the most babies named Emi are California, Texas and Florida, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 84 | #393 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 31 | #927 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 20 | #807 | 0.5× |
| New York | 19 | #838 | 0.8× |
| Hawaii | 18 | #19 | 10.8× |
| Washington | 15 | #462 | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 10 | #646 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #871 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,086 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,153 | 0.4× |
Where Emi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emi is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1916 it was given 10.8 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 Emi 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 818,184 babies since 1880, Emi is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 303 of their 14,604 babies (2.1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Emi
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 Emi and names like it
- Compare Emi and EmmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmi peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emi since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Emi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.