Meaning not yet researched.
Emmeline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 284 in 2025. Its best rank was #753 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #753 in 2017; #922 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emmeline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#922 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #753.
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Emmeline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 284 girls in 2025. Peak: #753 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 370 (2017).
In 2025, 284 US girls were named Emmeline, making it the 922nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 17 places from #939 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 281 girls named Emmeline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #753, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 370. For comparison, it was #810 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emmeline in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 6,152 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,862 babies named Emmeline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,166 US girls were named Emmeline; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 370. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,659 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Emmeline ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #417 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), Emeline (3,612 babies since 1880), Emaline (1,901 babies since 1880) and Emelin (854 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Emmelina, Emelene and Emelyne are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Emmelina (109), Emelene (31), Emelyne (31).
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 Emmeline 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 10 | #417 | #754 |
| Idaho | 5 | #427 | — |
| Colorado | 13 | #434 | #641 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #450 | #490 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #651 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #661 | #722 |
| Washington | 9 | #703 | #568 |
| Virginia | 10 | #711 | #525 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #740 | #727 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #778 | #720 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #781 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #834 | #979 |
| Illinois | 10 | #871 | #782 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #890 | — |
| California | 32 | #894 | #910 |
| New York | 17 | #918 | #900 |
| Texas | 30 | #962 | #857 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,061 | #805 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,075 | #809 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,105 | #1,001 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,359 | #1,144 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 284 | #922 | — | — |
| 2024 | 281 | #939 | — | — |
| 2023 | 276 | #949 | — | — |
| 2022 | 270 | #981 | — | — |
| 2021 | 307 | #886 | — | — |
| 2020 | 311 | #864 | — | — |
| 2019 | 359 | #774 | — | — |
| 2018 | 347 | #789 | — | — |
| 2017 | 370 | #753 | — | — |
| 2016 | 361 | #789 | — | — |
| 2015 | 347 | #810 | — | — |
| 2014 | 302 | #900 | — | — |
| 2013 | 246 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 2012 | 230 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 2010 | 140 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,651 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,827 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,259 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,446 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,435 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,394 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,033 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,141 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,495 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,712 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,944 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,411 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,287 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,651 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,335 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,144 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,088 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,080 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,385 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,345 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,468 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,555 | — | — |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,346 | — | — |
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).