Meaning not yet researched.
Emsley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,566 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,566 in 2015; #3,666 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emsley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,666 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #2,566.
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Emsley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,566 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 70 (2015).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Emsley, making it the 3,666th most common girls’ name of the year, down 366 places from #3,300 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 48 girls named Emsley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,566, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #2,566 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emsley in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 807 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 538 babies named Emsley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 430 US girls were named Emsley; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Emslee, Emslie and Emzley 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Emslee (93), Emslie (28), Emzley (5).
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 Emsley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,666 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,680 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,508 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,131 | — | — |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,892 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,792 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,857 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,032 | — | — |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,548 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,103 |
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).