Emy
Emy was given to 63 girls in 2025, #2,728 among girls’ names; 1,497 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Emy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emy?
#2,728 among girls’ names, 2025
Emy rose from #4,017 in 2015 to #2,728 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 39.2 per million.
65 babies in 2024, the peak
Emy peaked in 2024, when 65 girls were given it, #2,675 among girls’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,728 | 39.2 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,675 | 40.1 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,111 | 33.0 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,004 | 33.5 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,822 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,860 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,576 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,578 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,939 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,484 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,017 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,241 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,799 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,801 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,281 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,841 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,263 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,389 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,004 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,281 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,293 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,193 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,709 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,949 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,073 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,192 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,618 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,469 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,964 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,854 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,763 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,243 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,244 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,101 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,149 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,532 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,655 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,787 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,450 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,897 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,160 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,968 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,928 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,007 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,794 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,798 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,905 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,006 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,280 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,711 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,995 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,986 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,872 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,554 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,659 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,508 | 6.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,088 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,868 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,815 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,630 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,073 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,848 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,555 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,760 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,348 | 2.4 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,656 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,848 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,596 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,205 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,317 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,003 | 5.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,400 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,680 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,344 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,025 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,129 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,740 | 6.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,636 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emy, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,497 Americans ever recorded as Emy. The median Emy alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,006 people named Emy (1,934 women and girls, 72 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,113 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 44 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 452 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 600 |
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 Emy born?
The states with the most babies named Emy are Texas, California and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,651 | 0.7× |
| California | 8 | #2,339 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,753 | 0.7× |
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 Emy 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 809,205 babies since 1880, Emy is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 14,435 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Emy
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 Emy and names like it
- Compare Emy and EmmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmy peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emy since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Emy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.