In 2025, 182 US girls were named Emmaline, making it the 1,236th most common girls’ name of the year, down 38 places from #1,198 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 198 girls named Emmaline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #455, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 313, in 2014. For comparison, it was #904 in 2015 and #3,287 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emmaline in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 14 babies. In all, 7,422 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,808 babies named Emmaline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,499 US girls were named Emmaline; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 312. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,831 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emmaline ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #594 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), Emmeline (6,152 babies since 1880), Emmalynn (4,780 babies since 1880) and Emeline (3,612 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emiline, Emalene and Emmiline are summarised on this page.