Emelyn
#2,298 for girls in 2025, 79 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 129 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,783since 1913
Emelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Emelyn 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,298 | 79 |
| 2024 | #2,533 | 70 |
| 2023 | #2,124 | 90 |
| 2022 | #2,530 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,131 | 88 |
| 2020 | #2,156 | 84 |
| 2019 | #1,888 | 106 |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 |
| 2017 | #1,889 | 107 |
| 2016 | #2,054 | 96 |
| 2015 | #1,894 | 107 |
| 2014 | #1,757 | 118 |
| 2013 | #1,646 | 129 |
| 2012 | #1,846 | 109 |
| 2011 | #1,829 | 110 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 99 |
| 2009 | #1,914 | 109 |
| 2008 | #2,032 | 102 |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 |
| 2006 | #2,127 | 91 |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 |
| 2004 | #2,240 | 78 |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 |
| 2001 | #2,740 | 54 |
| 2000 | #3,216 | 42 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | — | |
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| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | — | |
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| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
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| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
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| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 |
| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 |
| 1923 | #2,465 | 14 |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 |
| 1917 | #2,552 | 12 |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Emelyn! It came in at #3,187, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1926–1927, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Emelyn is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#688 · 1 in 3,629
- Oklahoma#743 · 1 in 3,297
- Massachusetts#851 · 1 in 5,086
- New Jersey#1,170 · 1 in 7,303
- California#1,936 · 1 in 17,424
Best ever in a state: #605 in Massachusetts, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #688 | 5 | 1 in 3,629 |
| Oklahoma | #743 | 5 | 1 in 3,297 |
| Massachusetts | #851 | 5 | 1 in 5,086 |
| New Jersey | #1,170 | 5 | 1 in 7,303 |
| California | #1,936 | 12 | 1 in 17,424 |
| New York | #1,962 | 6 | 1 in 15,379 |
| Texas | #1,976 | 10 | 1 in 15,831 |
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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 Emelyn
- 235 spots since 2024 (#2,533 → #2,298)
- 142 spots since 2020 (#2,156 → #2,298)
- 404 spots since 2015 (#1,894 → #2,298)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2013 at #1,646 (129 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,603 girls born in 2013 were named Emelyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,345 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.8% of all girls named Emelyn (1,080) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 51 | #2,552 (1917) | #3,409 |
| 1920s | 67 | #2,465 (1923) | #3,998 |
| 1930s | 10 | #4,204 (1935) | #4,377 |
| 1940s | 16 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,755 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 17 | #5,696 (1960) | #6,297 |
| 1970s | 26 | #6,666 (1973) | #7,511 |
| 1980s | 62 | #7,409 (1981) | #8,806 |
| 1990s | 216 | #3,443 (1999) | #5,193 |
| 2000s | 757 | #1,914 (2009) | #2,406 |
| 2010s | 1,080 | #1,646 (2013) | #1,879 |
| 2020s | 481 | #2,124 (2023) | #2,295 |
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.
Emelyn in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 16,156 of them was named Emelyn, which outranked 90.5% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,831Jiya110
- #1,831Katharine110
- #1,831Saoirse110
- #1,846Emelyn109
- #1,846Annabeth109
- #1,846Egypt109
- #1,846Ericka109
- #1,859Akshara108
- #1,859Briar108
- #1,859Davina108
Tied with 12 names at #1,846; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.