Girls' name · since 1999
Emyly
Emyly has 40 recorded births since 1999 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1999 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #37,516 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 40
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
Emyly sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 40 recorded since 1999.
Emyly has 40 recorded births among girls since 1999, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2009.
- #37,516 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 40 born since 1999
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Emyly ranks #37,516 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 40 born since 1999, peaking in the 2000s.
- #37,516 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 40
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
Emyly's 40 recorded births place it above 47.83% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Emyly's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Emyly's full recorded timeline at 2005, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2001, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1999 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Emyly popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2009
- Peak year (1999)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Emyly by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (31 births, 78% of the file).
2000s was Emyly's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 78% of all-time use.
Emyly births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 9
1990s
9 births
- 2000s
2000s
31 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 31 births (78% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Emyly: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 1999–2009 (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 Emyly 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.