Emmelyn
Emmelyn was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,352 among girls’ names; 657 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmelyn?
#3,352 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmelyn fell from #3,310 in 2015 to #3,352 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 27.4 to 28.6 per million.
51 babies in 2014, the peak
Emmelyn peaked in 2014, when 51 girls were given it, #3,197 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,352 | 28.6 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,931 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,000 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,402 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,875 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,798 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,947 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,359 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,516 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,802 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,310 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,197 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,182 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,156 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,089 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,247 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,445 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,658 | 7.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,718 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,702 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,702 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,477 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,185 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 653 Americans named Emmelyn 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 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 500 people named Emmelyn (496 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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 Emmelyn?
Emmelyn is a less common spelling of Emelyn: SSA has recorded 657 Emmelyn and 2,783 Emelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,023 babies since 1880, Emmelyn is the eighth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 547 babies (8.4%), the fourth 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 Emmelyn
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 Emmelyn and names like it
- Compare Emmelyn and EmelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmelyn peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Emmelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.