Emalyn

#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births

Peak · girls
2015 · 178 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,873
since 1918

Emalyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Emalyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #1,329, 2015girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#4,46031
2024#3,57543
2023#3,42846
2022#2,82160
2021#3,15751
2020#2,34175
2019#2,01195
2018#2,09891
2017#1,930104
2016#1,523148
2015#1,329178
2014#1,562139
2013#1,624132
2012#1,744118
2011#1,817111
2010#1,762117
2009#2,46577
2008#3,77942
2007#5,70924
2006#5,90622
2005#7,50015
2004#6,21619
2003#5,23523
2002#6,12918
2001#6,95615
2000#9,8749
1999#7,23913
1998#8,01611
1997#9,8028
1996#13,5185
1995#13,3865
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five girls were named Emalyn! It came in at #4,291, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1920–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Emalyn is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more girls named Emalyn in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Emalyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 885 spots since 2024 (#3,575 → #4,460)
  • 2,119 spots since 2020 (#2,341 → #4,460)
  • 3,131 spots since 2015 (#1,329 → #4,460)
Rise & fade · girls
97 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 2015 at #1,329 (178 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,029
  • Highest: 1 in 10,029 girls born in 2015 were named Emalyn (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 51,847 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 65.8% of all girls named Emalyn (1,233) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s12#4,251 (1919)#4,271
1920s5#4,973 (1925)#4,973
1930s0——
1940s6#4,764 (1947)#4,764
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1990s47#7,239 (1999)#10,880
2000s264#2,465 (2009)#5,977
2010s1,233#1,329 (2015)#1,740
2020s306#2,341 (2020)#3,297

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.

Emalyn in 1918

girls
#4,291
6 births · 1 in 192,939 girls

Top girls' names in 1918

  1. #1Mary67,365
  2. #2Helen36,148
  3. #3Dorothy32,030
  4. #4Margaret27,139
  5. #5Ruth25,535
  6. #6Mildred17,258
  7. #7Virginia16,421
  8. #8Frances16,132
  9. #9Elizabeth15,853
  10. #10Anna15,666
  11. #4,291Emalyn6
More about 1918

girls

1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 192,939 of them was named Emalyn, which outranked 23.2% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Emalyn
  1. #3,869Zelna7
  2. #3,869Zenia7
  3. #3,869Zonnie7
  4. #4,291Emalyn6
  5. #4,291Abby6
  6. #4,291Adelphia6
  7. #4,291Affie6
  8. #4,809Abie5
  9. #4,809Adalee5
  10. #4,809Addis5

Tied with 517 names at #4,291; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
  2. ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
  3. ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
  4. ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
  5. ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Valentine#964 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 428Ottie#952 → #1,380
  3. ↓ 354Delora#923 → #1,277
  4. ↓ 318Georgene#896 → #1,214
  5. ↓ 299Clifford#904 → #1,203

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1918 →