Emmaleigh
Emmaleigh was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,454 among girls’ names; 2,546 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Emmaleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmaleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmaleigh?
#5,454 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmaleigh fell from #2,043 in 2015 to #5,454 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.8 to 14.3 per million.
143 babies in 2010, the peak
Emmaleigh peaked in 2010, when 143 girls were given it, #1,556 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,454 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,695 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,069 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,940 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,897 | 23.2 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,694 | 38.4 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,690 | 38.1 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,984 | 58.2 |
| 2017 | 124 | #1,717 | 71.8 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,155 | 50.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #2,043 | 53.8 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,929 | 58.2 |
| 2013 | 112 | #1,817 | 63.8 |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,784 | 65.3 |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,614 | 76.2 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,556 | 80.4 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,833 | 63.7 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,792 | 64.5 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,747 | 64.5 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,910 | 55.8 |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,681 | 63.9 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,738 | 60.4 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,876 | 53.6 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,388 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,487 | 34.4 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,599 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,947 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,316 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,387 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,308 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,248 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,728 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,748 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,546 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,713 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,829 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,989 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,239 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,895 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmaleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmaleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmaleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmaleigh, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,546 Americans ever recorded as Emmaleigh. The median Emmaleigh alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,958 people named Emmaleigh (1,951 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 898 |
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 Emmaleigh born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 5 | #860 | 1.0× |
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 Emmaleigh 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,050 babies since 1880, Emmaleigh is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 33 babies (70%), again the 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 Emmaleigh
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 Emmaleigh and names like it
- Compare Emmaleigh and EmileighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmaleigh peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmaleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Emmaleigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmaleigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.