Meaning not yet researched.
Emelin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,818 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,818 in 2004; #7,601 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emelin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,601 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #2,818.
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Emelin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,818 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 62 (2006).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Emelin, making it the 7,601st most common girls’ name of the year, down 572 places from #7,029 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 16 girls named Emelin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,818, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 62, in 2006. For comparison, it was #6,299 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emelin in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 10 babies. In all, 854 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 461 babies named Emelin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 130 US girls were named Emelin; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Emeline (3,612 babies since 1880), Emmeline (6,152 babies since 1880), Emelyn (2,783 babies since 1880) and Emaline (1,901 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 Emelin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,601 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,029 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,243 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,807 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,777 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,407 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,263 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,356 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,125 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,299 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,274 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,710 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,143 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,112 | — | — |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,965 | — | — |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,478 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,838 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,604 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,432 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,082 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,869 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,080 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,775 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,163 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,837 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,154 | — | — |
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).