Emmeline
Emmeline was given to 284 girls in 2025, #922 among girls’ names; 6,152 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,860 Americans named Emmeline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmeline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emmeline mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emmeline is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
Medieval English form of Old French Ameline, diminutive form of Amélie, cognate to English Amelia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emmeline?
#922 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmeline fell from #810 in 2015 to #922 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.18 per 1,000.
370 babies in 2017, the peak
Emmeline peaked in 2017, when 370 girls were given it, #753 among girls’ names. The 284 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 284 | #922 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 281 | #939 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 276 | #949 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 270 | #981 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 307 | #886 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 311 | #864 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 359 | #774 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 347 | #789 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 370 | #753 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 361 | #789 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 347 | #810 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 302 | #900 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 246 | #1,016 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 230 | #1,080 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,422 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 140 | #1,571 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,744 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,142 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,940 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,946 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,093 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,279 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,349 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,231 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,607 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,638 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,752 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,938 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,648 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,449 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,608 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,383 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,058 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,877 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,643 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,267 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,822 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,652 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,256 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,444 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,433 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,226 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,393 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,593 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,032 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,139 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,493 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,710 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,942 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,410 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,285 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,672 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,478 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,648 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,466 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,145 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,833 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,715 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,169 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,983 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,932 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,042 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmeline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmeline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmeline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmeline, and how old are they?
5,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 6,152 Americans ever recorded as Emmeline. The median Emmeline alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,182 people named Emmeline (4,179 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 382 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,040 |
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 Emmeline born?
The states with the most babies named Emmeline are California, Texas and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #894 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 30 | #962 | 0.6× |
| New York | 17 | #918 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #740 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 13 | #434 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #450 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #778 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 10 | #417 | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | #871 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 10 | #711 | 1.0× |
Where Emmeline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emmeline is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 Emmeline 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 21,391 babies since 1880, Emmeline is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 284 of their 645 babies (44%), the 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 Emmeline
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 Emmeline and names like it
- Compare Emmeline and EmmalineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmeline peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmeline since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Emmeline: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Emmeline.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmeline alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.