Emalee
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 236 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,814since 1918
Emalee over time
Rank among girls' names. Emalee has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 |
| 2018 | #2,905 | 57 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 |
| 2016 | #2,366 | 79 |
| 2015 | #1,861 | 110 |
| 2014 | #1,838 | 110 |
| 2013 | #1,775 | 115 |
| 2012 | #1,831 | 110 |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 |
| 2010 | #1,603 | 135 |
| 2009 | #1,516 | 150 |
| 2008 | #1,461 | 161 |
| 2007 | #1,489 | 155 |
| 2006 | #1,278 | 187 |
| 2005 | #1,027 | 236 |
| 2004 | #1,201 | 186 |
| 2003 | #1,079 | 205 |
| 2002 | #1,323 | 147 |
| 2001 | #1,266 | 155 |
| 2000 | #1,518 | 120 |
| 1999 | #1,398 | 126 |
| 1998 | #1,734 | 91 |
| 1997 | #1,707 | 91 |
| 1996 | #1,767 | 84 |
| 1995 | #1,900 | 73 |
| 1994 | #2,059 | 67 |
| 1993 | #1,898 | 74 |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 |
| 1991 | #2,484 | 50 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 |
| 1988 | #2,700 | 39 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
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| 1921 | #2,633 | 13 |
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| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Emalee! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Emalee is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,011 · 1 in 10,091
- Michigan#1,067 · 1 in 10,410
- California#2,094 · 1 in 25,532
- Texas#2,282 · 1 in 27,910
Best ever in a state: #281 in West Virginia, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #1,011 | 6 | 1 in 10,091 |
| Michigan | #1,067 | 5 | 1 in 10,410 |
| California | #2,094 | 9 | 1 in 25,532 |
| Texas | #2,282 | 5 | 1 in 27,910 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Emalee
- 1,243 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #7,885)
- 3,337 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #7,885)
- 6,024 spots since 2015 (#1,861 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2005 at #1,027 (236 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,830 girls born in 2005 were named Emalee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.6% of all girls named Emalee (1,702) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #4,251 (1919) | #4,530 |
| 1920s | 19 | #2,633 (1921) | #3,534 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,255 (1937) | #4,255 |
| 1940s | 21 | #4,420 (1941) | #4,780 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 6 | #6,009 (1964) | #6,009 |
| 1970s | 23 | #7,173 (1975) | #8,804 |
| 1980s | 189 | #2,700 (1988) | #4,730 |
| 1990s | 756 | #1,398 (1999) | #1,999 |
| 2000s | 1,702 | #1,027 (2005) | #1,316 |
| 2010s | 944 | #1,603 (2010) | #2,168 |
| 2020s | 138 | #4,167 (2021) | #5,729 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Emalee in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 20,869 of them was named Emalee, which outranked 88.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,752Petra85
- #1,752Torie85
- #1,752Zahra85
- #1,767Emalee84
- #1,767Dianne84
- #1,767Evangeline84
- #1,767Genna84
- #1,780Azucena83
- #1,780Bayleigh83
- #1,780Dorian83
Tied with 12 names at #1,767; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.