Emmarae
Emmarae was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,345 among girls’ names; 406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmarae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmarae?
#10,345 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmarae rose from #10,355 in 2015 to #10,345 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 5.6 per million.
22 babies in 2016, the peak
Emmarae peaked in 2016, when 22 girls were given it, #5,848 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,345 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,507 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,628 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,478 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,316 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,465 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,276 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,717 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,848 | 12.4 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,355 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #6,054 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,089 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,178 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,653 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,390 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,564 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,511 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,838 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,110 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,366 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,441 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,388 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,542 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,935 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,142 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,601 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,519 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,541 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,305 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmarae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmarae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmarae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmarae, and how old are they?
An estimated 402 Americans named Emmarae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Emmarae (304 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 348 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,543 babies since 1880, Emmarae is the third most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 255 babies (3.5%), the fifth 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 Emmarae
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 Emmarae and names like it
- Compare Emmarae and EmmarieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmarae peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmarae since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Emmarae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmarae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.