Meaning not yet researched.
Emelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,648 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,648 in 2013; #2,303 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,303 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,648.
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Emelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,648 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 129 (2013).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Emelyn, making it the 2,303rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 236 places from #2,539 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 70 girls named Emelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,648, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #1,898 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emelyn in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 2,783 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,080 babies named Emelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 889 US girls were named Emelyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 107. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emelyn ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,527 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emmalyn (8,847 babies since 1880), Emeline (3,612 babies since 1880), Emalyn (1,873 babies since 1880) and Emilyn (1,525 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 Emelyn 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,527 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,567 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,258 | #1,696 |
| California | 8 | #2,334 | #1,452 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,721 | #2,998 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 2015 | 107 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,083 | — | — |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,727 | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,816 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,262 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,718 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,059 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,014 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,628 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,219 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,959 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,477 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,756 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,493 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,607 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,851 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,333 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,526 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,873 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,870 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,862 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,902 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,846 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,404 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,223 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,079 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,145 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,237 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,209 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,635 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,338 | — | — |
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).