In 2025, 170 US girls were named Emilie, making it the 1,312th most common girls’ name of the year, up 79 places from #1,391 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 162 girls named Emilie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #228, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 660, in 2003. For comparison, it was #867 in 2015 and #989 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emilie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 46 babies with the name. In all, 26,661 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,742 babies named Emilie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,149 US girls were named Emilie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 316. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,455 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emilie ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #722 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), Emilia (69,121 babies since 1880), Emelie (2,612 babies since 1880) and Emilio (54,013 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emmalie, Emylee and Emmilee are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.