Emmylou
#2,276 for girls in 2025, 80 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 94 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,274since 1924
Emmylou over time
Rank among girls' names. Emmylou has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #2,276 | 80 |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 69 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 |
| 2022 | #2,579 | 68 |
| 2021 | #2,046 | 94 |
| 2020 | #2,257 | 79 |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 |
| 2017 | #2,432 | 74 |
| 2016 | #2,479 | 73 |
| 2015 | #2,590 | 69 |
| 2014 | #3,369 | 47 |
| 2013 | #3,076 | 53 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
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| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
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| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
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| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
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| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Emmylou! It came in at #5,061, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Emmylou is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#915 · 1 in 4,810
- Texas#2,210 · 1 in 17,838
- California#2,276 · 1 in 20,216
Best ever in a state: #571 in Kansas, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #915 | 6 | 1 in 4,810 |
| Texas | #2,210 | 9 | 1 in 17,838 |
| California | #2,276 | 8 | 1 in 20,216 |
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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 Emmylou
- 283 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #2,276)
- 19 spots since 2020 (#2,257 → #2,276)
- 314 spots since 2015 (#2,590 → #2,276)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 2021 at #2,046 (94 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,456 girls born in 2021 were named Emmylou (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,091 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.8% of all girls named Emmylou (558) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #5,061 (1924) | #5,061 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 27 | #4,626 (1979) | #4,920 |
| 1980s | 117 | #3,609 (1980) | #6,857 |
| 1990s | 25 | #10,567 (1996) | #11,401 |
| 2000s | 90 | #4,931 (2009) | #10,259 |
| 2010s | 558 | #2,334 (2018) | #3,330 |
| 2020s | 452 | #2,046 (2021) | #2,412 |
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.
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