Emilea
Emilea was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,596 among girls’ names; 476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emilea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emilea?
#15,596 among girls’ names, 2025
Emilea fell from #9,677 in 2015 to #15,596 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
23 babies in 1998, the peak
Emilea peaked in 1998, when 23 girls were given it, #4,685 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,596 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,895 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,091 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,990 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,533 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,725 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,775 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,663 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,714 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,677 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #8,186 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,193 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,786 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,508 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,981 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,050 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,162 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,664 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,434 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,620 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,421 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,682 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,131 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,883 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,039 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,363 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,685 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,961 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,638 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,671 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,520 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,270 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,750 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,085 | 6.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,235 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,550 | 3.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,421 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,369 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emilea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emilea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emilea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emilea, and how old are they?
An estimated 470 Americans named Emilea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 437 people named Emilea (436 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 444 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,038,346 babies since 1880, Emilea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 10,959 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Emilea
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 Emilea and names like it
- Compare Emilea and EmilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sEmilea peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emilea since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Emilea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emilea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.