Emmylou — #2583 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Emmylou

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,192 babies named Emmylou between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Emmylou currently holds the #2583 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 94 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emmylou performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 558 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Emmylou shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Emmylou in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emmylou in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,192 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.