In 2025, 28 US girls were named Emaline, making it the 4,801st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,610 places from #3,191 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 50 girls named Emaline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #915, reached in 1888. The most girls given the name in a single year was 73, in 2016. For comparison, it was #2,722 in 2015 and #4,433 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emaline in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 6 babies. In all, 1,901 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 539 babies named Emaline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 462 US girls were named Emaline; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Emmaline (7,422 babies since 1880), Emmeline (6,152 babies since 1880), Emeline (3,612 babies since 1880) and Emalyn (1,873 babies since 1880).