Meaning not yet researched.
Emberly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 411 in 2025. Its best rank was #526 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #526 in 2018; #688 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emberly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#688 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #526.
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Emberly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 411 girls in 2025. Peak: #526 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 595 (2018).
In 2025, 411 US girls were named Emberly, making it the 688th most common girls’ name of the year, down 56 places from #632 in 2024. That is 56 fewer than the 467 girls named Emberly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #526, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 595. For comparison, it was #1,760 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emberly in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 7 babies. In all, 5,562 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,929 babies named Emberly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,747 US girls were named Emberly; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 595. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,911 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emberly ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #212 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emberlee (1,878 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emberley, Emberli and Emberlie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Emberley (367), Emberli (183), Emberlie (178), Imberly (74), Emberlei (19), Emberlea (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Emberly in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 8 | #212 | — |
| Iowa | 12 | #282 | — |
| Tennessee | 22 | #367 | #868 |
| Missouri | 16 | #378 | #871 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #394 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #425 | — |
| Kentucky | 9 | #460 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #471 | — |
| Indiana | 14 | #492 | — |
| Alabama | 10 | #495 | — |
| Louisiana | 9 | #500 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #518 | — |
| Arizona | 12 | #552 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #566 | — |
| Ohio | 18 | #570 | #1,091 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #581 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #605 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #626 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #626 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #631 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #633 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #635 | — |
| Florida | 27 | #636 | #1,917 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #640 | #804 |
| Texas | 37 | #808 | #2,260 |
| Georgia | 11 | #873 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #924 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,084 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,334 | #2,365 |
| New York | 9 | #1,443 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 411 | #688 | — | — |
| 2024 | 467 | #632 | — | — |
| 2023 | 445 | #662 | — | — |
| 2022 | 501 | #597 | — | — |
| 2021 | 569 | #539 | — | — |
| 2020 | 536 | #554 | — | — |
| 2019 | 556 | #548 | — | — |
| 2018 | 595 | #526 | — | — |
| 2017 | 471 | #628 | — | — |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 2015 | 119 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,513 | — | — |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,578 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,201 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,318 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,969 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,599 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,683 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,189 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,875 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,081 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,154 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,765 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,947 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,836 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,824 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,058 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,120 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,554 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,782 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,593 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,369 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,974 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,401 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).