Emmalynn
Emmalynn was given to 139 girls in 2025, #1,530 among girls’ names; 4,780 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,750 Americans named Emmalynn 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 Emmalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emmalynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emmalynn is “a female given name.”
From Emma + -lynn or a variant of Emmeline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emmalynn?
#1,530 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmalynn fell from #694 in 2015 to #1,530 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.23 to 0.09 per 1,000.
409 babies in 2015, the peak
Emmalynn peaked in 2015, when 409 girls were given it, #694 among girls’ names. The 139 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,530 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 144 | #1,506 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,432 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,260 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 221 | #1,119 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 259 | #985 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 293 | #907 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 324 | #836 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 304 | #889 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 334 | #848 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 409 | #694 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 365 | #765 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 313 | #841 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 287 | #910 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 228 | #1,080 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 216 | #1,133 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,665 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,279 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,262 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,824 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,972 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,510 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,484 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,316 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,071 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,283 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,600 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,468 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,540 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,160 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,259 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,159 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmalynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmalynn, and how old are they?
4,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,780 Americans ever recorded as Emmalynn. The median Emmalynn alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 3,153 people named Emmalynn (3,153 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,712 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 32 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,430 |
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 Emmalynn born?
The states with the most babies named Emmalynn are Texas, Missouri and California, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,831 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 8 | #668 | 1.5× |
| California | 7 | #2,572 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,183 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 6 | #951 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,426 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,260 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,185 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,105 | 1.0× |
Where Emmalynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emmalynn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1985 it was given 1.6 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 Emmalynn 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 18,576 babies since 1880, Emmalynn is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 139 of their 478 babies (29%), 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 Emmalynn
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 Emmalynn and names like it
- Compare Emmalynn and EmmalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmalynn peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmalynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Emmalynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmalynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.