Emmi
Emmi was given to 124 girls in 2025, #1,669 among girls’ names; 2,335 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Emmi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emmi mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Emmi is “a female given name”
Originally a diminutive of Emilia and Emma.
/ˈemːi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emmi?
#1,669 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmi rose from #2,301 in 2015 to #1,669 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 45.4 to 77.1 per million.
127 babies in 2018, the peak
Emmi peaked in 2018, when 127 girls were given it, #1,659 among girls’ names. The 124 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124 | #1,669 | 77.1 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,875 | 66.0 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,818 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,799 | 69.5 |
| 2021 | 110 | #1,833 | 67.0 |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,772 | 69.3 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,775 | 68.5 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,659 | 74.7 |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,044 | 55.6 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,832 | 63.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #2,301 | 45.4 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,057 | 53.2 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,269 | 46.7 |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,343 | 45.4 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,422 | 43.2 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,436 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,291 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,191 | 48.1 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,653 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,896 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,606 | 35.2 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,780 | 31.6 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,803 | 30.1 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,748 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,730 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,017 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,283 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,431 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,974 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,749 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,271 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,049 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,658 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,676 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,588 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,057 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,379 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,423 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,863 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,074 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,685 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmi, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,335 Americans ever recorded as Emmi. The median Emmi alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,841 people named Emmi (1,830 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,672 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 75 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 838 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,380 |
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 Emmi born?
The states with the most babies named Emmi are California, Texas and New York, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,379 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,089 | 0.7× |
| New York | 8 | #1,569 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,591 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 5 | #950 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #922 | 0.2× |
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 Emmi 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, Emmi is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 14,604 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Emmi
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 Emmi and names like it
- Compare Emmi and EmmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEmmi peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmi since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Emmi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Emmi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.