Emmylou
Emmylou was given to 80 girls in 2025, #2,283 among girls’ names; 1,274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Emmylou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emmylou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emmylou?
#2,283 among girls’ names, 2025
Emmylou rose from #2,595 in 2015 to #2,283 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 38.7 to 49.8 per million.
94 babies in 2021, the peak
Emmylou peaked in 2021, when 94 girls were given it, #2,049 among girls’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,283 | 49.8 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,568 | 42.6 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,769 | 38.6 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,586 | 41.5 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,049 | 57.3 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,264 | 48.9 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,516 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,345 | 45.9 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,443 | 42.9 |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,491 | 41.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,595 | 38.7 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,381 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,089 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,662 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,717 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,248 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,975 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,167 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,729 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,478 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,431 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,536 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,624 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,920 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,913 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,945 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,627 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,985 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,756 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,217 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,747 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,596 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,594 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,734 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,296 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,898 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,641 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,683 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,297 | 7.8 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,319 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emmylou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emmylou has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emmylou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emmylou, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,274 Americans ever recorded as Emmylou. The median Emmylou alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 996 people named Emmylou (996 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 116 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 182 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 910 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,543 babies since 1880, Emmylou is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 80 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Emmylou
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 Emmylou and names like it
- Compare Emmylou and EmmalouBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmmylou peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emmylou since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Emmylou.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emmylou alive today were born 2013-2025.
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