Emalee

#8,010 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Emily

Emalee has been given to 3,814 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #8,010 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 236 recorded.

Babies named Emalee, 2025

1 in 255,000

Emalee over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emalee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Emily

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emalee means

Emalee is a variant of Emily.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Emalee → Emily. The family’s meaning is “rival, emulator”, recorded in English with the source elements aemulus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emily.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,814 girls were recorded with the name Emalee between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 236 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,027 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,576 in 2020 to #8,010 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,865 in 2015 to #8,010 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Emalee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 255,000; 13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 124,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #8,010; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 176,762 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Emalee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emalee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emalees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emalee was born before 2005 — so the typical Emalee is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 69.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 3,758; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (1,702).

Is Emalee rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1,289; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −3,434; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −6,145; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.12×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 5.5%; Peak was 2005 (236)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,027; 2005

Spellings of Emalee

Emalee is not the most common spelling — Emilie is, with 19.2% against Emalee's 2.8%.

Emilie19.2%26,654
Emilee17.3%24,019
Marlee12.7%17,654
Emmalee6.5%9,008
Adalee3.4%4,731
Maylee3.3%4,596
Mylee3.2%4,420
Kalee2.8%3,883

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Emalee is used

Across 1910–2025, Emalee was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 76,279 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Oklahoma1 in 33,333
2Texas1 in 33,333
3Utah1 in 33,333
4California1 in 50,000
5Florida1 in 50,000
6Georgia1 in 50,000
7Michigan1 in 50,000
8Missouri1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Emalee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emalee around the world

Where Emalee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1999–2005
#3,970
in 2005
Canada
1994–2013
#3,199
in 2013
South Australia
1990–2013
#818
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Emalee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #8,010
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 3,434
Best rank ever: #1,027; 2005
Peak year: 2005; 236 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 3,814
Count in 2025: 13

Names similar to Emalee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Emalyn Emarie Emani Maylee Emaline Adalee Raylee Hadlee Kinlee Zaylee Skylee Oaklee Rhylee Kynlee Emaan Kenlee Analee Taylee Lynlee Emari Raelee Harlee Cailee Jubilee

Names with a curve like Emalee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Emalee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Joseline Shaelyn Janaya Alli Vianey Jacie Makenzi Arissa Abigale Jalynn Cailey Kyara

Sibling names for Emalee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Abagail Sydnee Lesli Jazmyne Taniya Rhianna Shakira Madisen

For a brother

Kale Aaden Keven Zakary Garret Samual Donavon Shamar

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