Meaning not yet researched.
Emberlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,058 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,058 in 2021; #1,320 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emberlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,320 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,058.
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Emberlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,058 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 238 (2021).
In 2025, 169 US girls were named Emberlyn, making it the 1,320th most common girls’ name of the year, down 60 places from #1,260 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 185 girls named Emberlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,058, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 238. For comparison, it was #1,911 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emberlyn in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 7 babies. In all, 2,196 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,126 babies named Emberlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,682 US girls were named Emberlyn; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 238. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emberlyn ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #590 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emberlynn (2,961 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Emberlyn 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #590 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #593 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #630 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #655 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #666 | #872 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #740 | #599 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #810 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #811 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #827 | #1,338 |
| Illinois | 10 | #870 | #1,723 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,112 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,167 | #3,426 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,467 | #2,179 |
| California | 6 | #2,878 | #2,366 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 2024 | 185 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 2023 | 181 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 2021 | 238 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2020 | 149 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 2017 | 149 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 2015 | 106 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,331 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,266 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,883 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,490 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,202 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,062 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,047 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,825 | — | — |
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).