Emmily
Emmily was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,518 among girls’ names; 973 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmily by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmily?
#8,518 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmily fell from #5,887 in 2015 to #8,518 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 7.5 per million.
42 babies in 2008, the peak
Emmily peaked in 2008, when 42 girls were given it, #3,799 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,518 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,467 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,363 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,749 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,531 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,828 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,960 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,893 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,192 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,126 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,887 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,204 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,366 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,445 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,602 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,151 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,603 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,799 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,598 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,494 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,400 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,644 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,896 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,349 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,648 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,442 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,729 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,511 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,926 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,595 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,249 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,569 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,271 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,274 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,693 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,736 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,361 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,786 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,544 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,746 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,159 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,593 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,228 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,495 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,607 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,952 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,658 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,862 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,450 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmily a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmily has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmily: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmily, and how old are they?
An estimated 959 Americans named Emmily and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 903 people named Emmily (898 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 891 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
Where are babies named Emmily born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,249 | 1.1× |
Where Emmily is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emmily is most over-represented in California: since 1976 it was given 1.1 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 Emmily with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Emmily?
Emmily is a less common spelling of Emily: SSA has recorded 973 Emmily and 898,296 Emily since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 929,450 babies since 1880, Emmily is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 6,169 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Emmily
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 Emmily and names like it
- Compare Emmily and EmilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEmmily peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmily since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Emmily.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Emmily alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.