In 2025, 32 US girls were named Emeli, making it the 4,386th most common girls’ name of the year, down 542 places from #3,844 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 39 girls named Emeli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,064, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 91. For comparison, it was #5,527 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emeli in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 6 babies. In all, 1,417 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 651 babies named Emeli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 280 US girls were named Emeli; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Emily (898,296 babies since 1880), Emilia (69,121 babies since 1880), Emilio (54,013 babies since 1880) and Emilie (26,661 babies since 1880).