Emmelia
Emmelia was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,925 among girls’ names; 595 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmelia?
#3,925 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmelia rose from #4,893 in 2015 to #3,925 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 23.0 per million.
37 babies in 2025, the peak
Emmelia peaked in 2025, when 37 girls were given it, #3,925 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 33 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,925 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,316 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,742 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,618 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,269 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,476 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,192 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,689 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,962 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,187 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,893 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,935 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,051 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,761 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,088 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,030 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,951 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,128 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,167 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,111 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,367 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,963 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,887 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,134 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,359 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,183 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,646 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,929 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 591 Americans named Emmelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 392 people named Emmelia (392 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 420 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 Emmelia?
Emmelia is a less common spelling of Emelia: SSA has recorded 595 Emmelia and 14,028 Emelia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 89,492 babies since 1880, Emmelia is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 5,272 babies (<1%), the third 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 Emmelia
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 Emmelia and names like it
- Compare Emmelia and EmeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmmelia peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmelia since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Emmelia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmelia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.