Emme
Emme was given to 80 girls in 2025, #2,282 among girls’ names; 3,613 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,580 Americans named Emme 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 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emme by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emme mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emme is “a diminutive of the female given name Emily.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emme?
#2,282 among girls’ names, 2025
Emme fell from #1,449 in 2015 to #2,282 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 89.1 to 49.8 per million.
227 babies in 2009, the peak
Emme peaked in 2009, when 227 girls were given it, #1,118 among girls’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,282 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,333 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,275 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,786 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,508 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,611 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 140 | #1,542 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,751 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,554 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 125 | #1,705 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 159 | #1,449 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 143 | #1,528 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 190 | #1,256 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 196 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 217 | #1,128 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 227 | #1,118 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 212 | #1,201 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,355 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,113 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,481 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 87 | #2,088 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 114 | #1,678 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,635 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,726 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,077 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,020 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,980 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,041 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,857 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,161 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,073 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,060 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emme a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emme has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emme: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emme, and how old are they?
3,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,613 Americans ever recorded as Emme. The median Emme alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,329 people named Emme (3,310 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
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 Emme born?
The states with the most babies named Emme are New York, California and Texas, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,350 | 1.0× |
| California | 8 | #2,336 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,723 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,143 | 0.9× |
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 Emme 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 818,184 babies since 1880, Emme is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 14,604 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Emme
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 Emme and names like it
- Compare Emme and EmmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmme peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emme since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Emme.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emme alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.