Emlyn
Emlyn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,646 among girls’ names; 477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emlyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emlyn is “a male given name from Welsh.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emlyn?
#9,646 among girls’ names, 2025
Emlyn fell from #8,133 in 2015 to #9,646 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.2 per million.
37 babies in 2018, the peak
Emlyn peaked in 2018, when 37 girls were given it, #3,947 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,646 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,402 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,025 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,175 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,013 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,060 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,472 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,947 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,182 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,133 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,264 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,822 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,966 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,209 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,476 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,444 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,164 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,048 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,745 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,237 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,399 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,439 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,593 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,745 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,930 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,577 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,942 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,822 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,982 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,376 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,238 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,503 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,973 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,218 | 3.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,897 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,532 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,335 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 477 Americans recorded as Emlyn, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Emlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emlyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 465 Americans named Emlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 576 people named Emlyn (487 women and girls, 89 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 372 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 17,857 babies since 1880, Emlyn is the eighth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 430 babies (2.3%), 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 Emlyn
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 Emlyn and names like it
- Compare Emlyn and EmmalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmlyn peaked in 2018.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Emlyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Emlyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emlyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.