Girls' name · since 1999
Emyah
170 babies named Emyah in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #21,471 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,845 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 170
- born since 1999
- 2010s
- peak decade
Emyah currently ranks #15845 among girls' names in America, with 170 babies recorded since 1999.
Emyah has 170 recorded births among girls since 1999, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15845 as of the latest data, more common than 8% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2025.
- #21,471 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,845 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 170 born since 1999
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emyah ranks #21,471 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,845 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 170 born since 1999, peaking in the 2010s.
- #21,471 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,845 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 170
- born since 1999
- 2010s
- peak decade
Emyah's 170 recorded births place it above 70.25% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Emyah compares
170 34th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Emyah's all-time total is 55% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Emyah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 170 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Emyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Emyah splits its recorded history at 2011: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1999 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2006 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Emyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2025
- Peak year (2006)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Emyah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (80 births, 47% of the file).
2010s was Emyah's strongest decade.
80 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Emyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
70 births
- 2010s
2010s
80 births
- 2020s 15
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 80 births (47% of all-time use).
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- Emyah's decade-level peak was the 2010s (80 total births); usage has since declined to 15 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2006)
Similar record span (~26 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1999–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Emyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.