Emileigh
Emileigh was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,597 among girls’ names; 1,383 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Emileigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emileigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emileigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emileigh is “a female given name.”
Variant of Emily.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emileigh?
#15,597 among girls’ names, 2025
Emileigh fell from #3,790 in 2015 to #15,597 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 3.1 per million.
61 babies in 2005, the peak
Emileigh peaked in 2005, when 61 girls were given it, #2,733 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,597 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,098 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,362 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,287 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,274 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,926 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,481 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,326 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,088 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,604 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,790 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,795 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,815 | 34.8 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,387 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,319 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,219 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,377 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,492 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,970 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,426 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,733 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,084 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,775 | 30.6 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,717 | 31.2 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,057 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,225 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,792 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,895 | 25.5 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,176 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,448 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,437 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,465 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,703 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,800 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,851 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,579 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,914 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,287 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,447 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,471 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,662 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,882 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emileigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emileigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emileigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emileigh, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,383 Americans ever recorded as Emileigh. The median Emileigh alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,110 people named Emileigh (1,109 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 221 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 785 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 362 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,050 babies since 1880, Emileigh is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 33 babies (15%), again the second 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 Emileigh
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 Emileigh and names like it
- Compare Emileigh and EmmaleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmileigh peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emileigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Emileigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emileigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.