Emmalyn
Emmalyn was given to 204 girls in 2025, #1,137 among girls’ names; 8,847 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,780 Americans named Emmalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emmalyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emmalyn is “a female given name.”
From Emma + Lyn or a variant of Emmeline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emmalyn?
#1,137 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmalyn fell from #456 in 2015 to #1,137 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.39 to 0.13 per 1,000.
693 babies in 2015, the peak
Emmalyn peaked in 2015, when 693 girls were given it, #456 among girls’ names. The 204 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 204 | #1,137 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 215 | #1,126 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 248 | #1,022 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 318 | #874 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 368 | #773 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 392 | #714 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 535 | #568 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 610 | #511 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 652 | #479 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 597 | #522 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 693 | #456 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 689 | #464 | 0.39 |
| 2013 | 665 | #458 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 601 | #508 | 0.34 |
| 2011 | 531 | #550 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 375 | #745 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 250 | #1,042 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,609 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,335 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,646 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,505 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,401 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,265 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,754 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,817 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,286 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,751 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,131 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,704 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,217 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,987 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,567 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,657 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,258 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,616 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,056 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,606 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,283 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmalyn, and how old are they?
8,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,847 Americans ever recorded as Emmalyn. The median Emmalyn alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 6,464 people named Emmalyn (6,460 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,150 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 123 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,150 |
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 Emmalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Emmalyn are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 22 | #1,202 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 13 | #722 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,193 | 0.7× |
| California | 11 | #1,872 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 10 | #933 | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #534 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,047 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 8 | #759 | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #509 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #925 | 1.3× |
Where Emmalyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emmalyn is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1946 it was given 1.4 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 Emmalyn 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 22,010 babies since 1880, Emmalyn is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 204 of their 554 babies (37%), 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 Emmalyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Nahla | 3,236 | |
| Kynleigh | 1,997 | |
| Temperance | 3,709 | |
| Paizley | 1,439 | |
| Kynlee | 6,242 | |
| Kensington | 3,112 |
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 Emmalyn and names like it
- Compare Emmalyn and EmmalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmalyn peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Emmalyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmalyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.