Emalene
#15,588 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Emalene has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #15,588 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Emalene, 2025
1 in 663,000
Emalene over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Emalene?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,588
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Emalene sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emalene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Emalenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Emalene was born before 1929 — so the typical Emalene is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 34.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (33).
Is Emalene 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +223
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 1917 (7)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.0% average annual change
Spellings of Emalene
Emalene is not the most common spelling — Marlene is, with 54.5% against Emalene's 0.04%.
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.
Emalene around the world
Where Emalene 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.
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Emalene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Emalene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Emalene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.