Emilly
Emilly was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,870 among girls’ names; 1,462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Emilly 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 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emilly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emilly?
#2,870 among girls’ names, 2025
Emilly rose from #4,016 in 2015 to #2,870 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 36.7 per million.
69 babies in 2003, the peak
Emilly peaked in 2003, when 69 girls were given it, #2,394 among girls’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,870 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,845 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,787 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,053 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,635 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,924 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,482 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,502 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,725 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,673 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,016 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,357 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,685 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,154 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,564 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,220 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,948 | 32.1 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,835 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,833 | 33.3 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,860 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,763 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,598 | 34.9 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,394 | 37.8 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,162 | 25.0 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,514 | 33.9 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,598 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,736 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,366 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,736 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,249 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,562 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,466 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,133 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,411 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,692 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,905 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,988 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,893 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,944 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,156 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,876 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,495 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,883 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,851 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,137 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,066 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,449 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,491 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emilly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emilly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emilly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emilly, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,462 Americans ever recorded as Emilly. The median Emilly alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,362 people named Emilly (1,360 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,276 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 225 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 823 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 366 |
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 Emilly born?
The states with the most babies named Emilly are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,871 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,044 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #2,189 | 0.5× |
Where Emilly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emilly is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1975 it was given 3.8 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 Emilly with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Emilly?
Emilly is a less common spelling of Emily: SSA has recorded 1,462 Emilly and 898,296 Emily since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,047,154 babies since 1880, Emilly is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 11,107 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Emilly
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 Emilly and names like it
- Compare Emilly and EmilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmilly peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emilly since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Emilly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emilly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.