Emmaly
Emmaly was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,231 among girls’ names; 628 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmaly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmaly?
#11,231 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmaly fell from #6,811 in 2015 to #11,231 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 5.0 per million.
39 babies in 2007, the peak
Emmaly peaked in 2007, when 39 girls were given it, #4,003 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,231 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,407 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,173 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,690 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,422 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,519 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,679 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,891 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,963 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,124 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,811 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,273 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,935 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,595 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,333 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,725 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,299 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,000 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,003 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,429 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,991 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,848 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,240 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,219 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,934 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,541 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,494 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,430 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,963 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,747 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,672 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,241 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,746 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,257 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,558 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,830 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,654 | 6.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,958 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmaly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmaly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmaly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmaly, and how old are they?
An estimated 621 Americans named Emmaly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 527 people named Emmaly (522 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Emmaly?
Emmaly is a less common spelling of Emmalee: SSA has recorded 628 Emmaly and 9,008 Emmalee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 935,527 babies since 1880, Emmaly is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 6,177 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 Emmaly
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 Emmaly and names like it
- Compare Emmaly and EmmaleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmmaly peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmaly since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Emmaly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmaly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.