Emiley — girls' name
1,779 babies named Emiley in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Emiley was born in this single decade.
80 babies were named Emiley in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Emiley
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,779 babies named Emiley between 1917 and 2023, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Emiley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 80 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Emiley performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 664 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Emiley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 137 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Emiley in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Emiley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,779 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Emiley at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Emiley popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1917
- Peak year (2005)
- 80
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,779 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 80 births in a single year.
Emiley by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 664 births that decade — 37% of Emiley's all-time total
Emiley decade highlights
- Peak decade 664 births
- Runner-up 493 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Emiley's strongest decade
664 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Emiley by state
Where Emiley concentrates geographically — total births since 1917
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 137 | 7.7% |
| #2 | Texas | | 113 | 6.4% |
| #3 | Florida | | 31 | 1.7% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 16 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Missouri | | 11 | 0.6% |
| #6 | North Carolina | | 10 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Oklahoma | | 10 | 0.6% |
| #8 | Indiana | | 7 | 0.4% |
137 of 1,779 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 11 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 7.7% of nationwide
- Texas 6.4% of nationwide
- Florida 1.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.9% of nationwide
- Missouri 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 11 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Emiley appears in 11 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.