Emmalee
Emmalee was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,303 among girls’ names; 9,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,710 Americans named Emmalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emmalee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emmalee is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
From Emma + Lee.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emmalee?
#3,303 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmalee fell from #973 in 2015 to #3,303 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.03 per 1,000.
441 babies in 2005, the peak
Emmalee peaked in 2005, when 441 girls were given it, #634 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,303 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,783 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,859 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,948 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,843 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,657 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,430 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,302 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 230 | #1,099 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 262 | #1,011 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 278 | #973 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 322 | #858 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 355 | #769 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 335 | #801 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 383 | #722 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 350 | #786 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 394 | #734 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 399 | #744 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 372 | #778 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 410 | #691 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 441 | #634 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 423 | #648 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 393 | #673 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 281 | #830 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 251 | #902 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 232 | #927 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 245 | #876 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 183 | #1,066 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 183 | #1,043 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 140 | #1,246 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,201 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 116 | #1,391 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,529 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,702 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,958 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 69 | #1,972 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,189 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,282 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,925 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,369 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,797 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,927 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,197 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,623 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,174 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,505 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,724 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,195 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,684 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,086 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,040 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,090 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,919 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,002 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,240 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,190 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,993 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,613 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,789 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,983 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,208 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,984 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,235 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,173 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,863 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,245 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,969 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,938 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmalee, and how old are they?
8,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 9,008 Americans ever recorded as Emmalee. The median Emmalee alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 7,337 people named Emmalee (7,334 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,310 |
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 Emmalee born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,045 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,085 | 0.6× |
Where Emmalee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emmalee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 Emmalee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,543 babies since 1880, Emmalee is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 174 babies (27%), 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 Emmalee
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 Emmalee and names like it
- Compare Emmalee and EmileeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmmalee peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmalee since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Emmalee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Emmalee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmalee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.