Girls' name · since 2017
Emmerlyn
18 babies named Emmerlyn in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #46,931 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,629 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Emmerlyn is the #16629 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 18 recorded since 2017.
Emmerlyn has 18 recorded births among girls since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16629 as of the latest data, more common than 4% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #46,931 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,629 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 18 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emmerlyn ranks #46,931 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,629 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 18 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #46,931 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,629 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Emmerlyn's 18 recorded births place it above 34.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Emmerlyn compares
18 7th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Emmerlyn's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Emmerlyn | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 18 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Emmerlyn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Emmerlyn's SSA record in two at 2021 and the more recent half accounts for 67% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 33%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2025, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2021 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Emmerlyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Emmerlyn by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (12 births, 67% of the file).
2020s was Emmerlyn's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Emmerlyn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 12 births (67% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emmerlyn: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2021)
Similar record span (~8 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Emmerlyn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.