Meaning not yet researched.
Emely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 590 in 2025. Its best rank was #298 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #298 in 2005; #503 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emely in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#503 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #298.
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Emely: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 590 girls in 2025. Peak: #298 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 1,092 (2008).
In 2025, 590 US girls were named Emely, making it the 503rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 76 places from #427 in 2024. That is 133 fewer than the 723 girls named Emely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #298, reached in 2005. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,092, in 2008. For comparison, it was #431 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emely in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 23,880 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 9,224 babies named Emely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,689 US girls were named Emely; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 743. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,724 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emely ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #170 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emily (898,296 babies since 1880), Emelie (2,612 babies since 1880), Emelia (14,028 babies since 1880) and Emili (1,923 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Emely 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 30 | #170 | #182 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #197 | #206 |
| Virginia | 33 | #248 | #271 |
| New Jersey | 32 | #257 | #201 |
| Nevada | 9 | #301 | #380 |
| New York | 47 | #361 | #178 |
| California | 84 | #392 | #302 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #405 | #279 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #409 | #506 |
| Texas | 82 | #410 | #335 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #414 | #590 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #420 | — |
| Georgia | 26 | #436 | #918 |
| Florida | 39 | #474 | #346 |
| Indiana | 13 | #523 | #990 |
| Alabama | 9 | #542 | #856 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #565 | #805 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #632 | #353 |
| Colorado | 8 | #656 | #638 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #680 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #719 | #477 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #721 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #763 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #770 | #616 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #951 | #1,291 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,059 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 590 | #503 | — | — |
| 2024 | 723 | #427 | — | — |
| 2023 | 729 | #424 | — | — |
| 2022 | 702 | #446 | — | — |
| 2021 | 584 | #528 | — | — |
| 2020 | 578 | #523 | — | — |
| 2019 | 741 | #431 | — | — |
| 2018 | 649 | #484 | — | — |
| 2017 | 743 | #428 | — | — |
| 2016 | 650 | #481 | — | — |
| 2015 | 733 | #431 | — | — |
| 2014 | 768 | #417 | — | — |
| 2013 | 727 | #417 | — | — |
| 2012 | 785 | #397 | — | — |
| 2011 | 867 | #370 | — | — |
| 2010 | 998 | #319 | 5 | #12,835 |
| 2009 | 1,042 | #315 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,092 | #306 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,025 | #325 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,068 | #309 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,079 | #298 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,006 | #315 | 6 | #10,364 |
| 2003 | 855 | #357 | — | — |
| 2002 | 745 | #394 | — | — |
| 2001 | 709 | #409 | — | — |
| 2000 | 597 | #465 | — | — |
| 1999 | 518 | #504 | 5 | #10,412 |
| 1998 | 412 | #588 | — | — |
| 1997 | 332 | #662 | — | — |
| 1996 | 355 | #634 | — | — |
| 1995 | 256 | #779 | — | — |
| 1994 | 146 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1993 | 158 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1992 | 101 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,036 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,484 | — | — |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,532 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,286 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,364 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,177 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,968 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,869 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,276 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,085 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,960 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,062 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,005 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,890 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,758 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,656 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,978 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,317 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,634 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,113 | — | — |
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).