Meaning not yet researched.
Emmalyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 204 in 2025. Its best rank was #456 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #456 in 2015; #1,137 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emmalyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,137 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #456.
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Emmalyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 204 girls in 2025. Peak: #456 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 693 (2015).
In 2025, 204 US girls were named Emmalyn, making it the 1,137th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #1,126 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 215 girls named Emmalyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #456, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 693. For comparison, it was #456 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emmalyn in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 6 babies. In all, 8,847 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,948 babies named Emmalyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,139 US girls were named Emmalyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 652. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,879 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emmalyn ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #509 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emmaline (7,422 babies since 1880), Emmalynn (4,780 babies since 1880), Emelyn (2,783 babies since 1880) and Emalyn (1,873 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emmelyn, Emmalene and Emmalyne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Emmelyn (657), Emmalene (461), Emmalyne (338), Emmilyn (277), Emmalynne (276), Emmilynn (91), Emmelynn (85), Emalin (44), Emalyne (42), Emmelin (24), Emmalinn (18), Emmelyne (11), and more.
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 Emmalyn 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 8 | #509 | #486 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #510 | #295 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #534 | #312 |
| Ohio | 13 | #722 | #304 |
| Washington | 8 | #759 | #324 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #765 | #432 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #780 | #379 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #812 | #421 |
| Colorado | 6 | #828 | #492 |
| Missouri | 6 | #844 | #348 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #925 | #337 |
| Georgia | 10 | #933 | #363 |
| Arizona | 6 | #952 | #348 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,047 | #413 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,086 | #328 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,091 | #359 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,193 | #716 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,202 | #524 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,476 | #428 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,528 | #325 |
| California | 11 | #1,872 | #685 |
| New York | 5 | #2,190 | #899 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 204 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2024 | 215 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 2023 | 248 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 2022 | 318 | #874 | — | — |
| 2021 | 368 | #773 | — | — |
| 2020 | 392 | #714 | — | — |
| 2019 | 535 | #568 | — | — |
| 2018 | 610 | #511 | — | — |
| 2017 | 652 | #479 | — | — |
| 2016 | 597 | #522 | — | — |
| 2015 | 693 | #456 | — | — |
| 2014 | 689 | #464 | — | — |
| 2013 | 665 | #458 | — | — |
| 2012 | 601 | #508 | — | — |
| 2011 | 531 | #550 | — | — |
| 2010 | 375 | #745 | — | — |
| 2009 | 250 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,134 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,708 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,222 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,992 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,572 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,663 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,265 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,623 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,062 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,612 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,760 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,287 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,428 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,848 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,597 | — | — |
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).