Girls' name · since 1919
Emila
Emila has 166 recorded births since 1919 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #21,711 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,180 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 166
- born since 1919
- 2010s
- peak decade
Emila currently ranks #10180 among girls' names in America, with 166 babies recorded since 1919.
Emila has 166 recorded births among girls since 1919, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10180 as of the latest data, more common than 41% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1919 to 2025.
- #21,711 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,180 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 166 born since 1919
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emila ranks #21,711 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,180 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 166 born since 1919, peaking in the 2010s.
- #21,711 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,180 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 166
- born since 1919
- 2010s
- peak decade
Emila's 166 recorded births place it above 69.92% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Emila compares
166 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
Emila's all-time total is 56% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Emila | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 166 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Emila's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Emila splits its recorded history at 2015: 65% of all births land in the more recent half, 35% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1919 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Emila popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1919–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 107 years of records
Emila by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (73 births, 44% of the file).
2010s was Emila's strongest decade.
73 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Emila births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 5
1910s
5 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 16
2000s
16 births
- 2010s
2010s
73 births
- 2020s
2020s
62 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 73 births (44% of all-time use).
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- Emila's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (73 total births) through the 2020s (62) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emila: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~106 yrs)
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, 1919–2025 (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 Emila 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.