Girls' name · since 2008
Emirah
Emirah has 80 recorded births since 2008 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #29,596 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,905 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Emirah is the #9905 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 80 recorded since 2008.
Emirah has 80 recorded births among girls since 2008, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9905 as of the latest data, more common than 43% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2025.
- #29,596 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,905 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 80 born since 2008
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emirah ranks #29,596 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,905 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 80 born since 2008, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,596 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,905 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Emirah's 80 recorded births place it above 58.94% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Emirah compares
80 21st 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
Emirah's all-time total is 79% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Emirah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 80 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 21 | 19,840 |
Emirah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Emirah's SSA record in two at 2020 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2015, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Emirah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Emirah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (47 births, 59% of the file).
2020s was Emirah's strongest decade.
47 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 59% of all-time use.
Emirah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s
2010s
27 births
- 2020s
2020s
47 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 47 births (59% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emirah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 2008–2025 (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 Emirah 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.