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Emberly

#688 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Ember

Emberly has been given to 5,562 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #688 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 595 recorded.

Babies named Emberly, 2025

1 in 8,070

Emberly over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emberly: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Ember

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emberly means

Emberly is a elaboration of Ember.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Emberly is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛm.bəɹ.li/ and /ˈɛm.bə.li/ for Emberly.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Emberly → Ember. The family’s meaning is “Ember; a glowing piece of burning fuel”, recorded in the naming reference for Ember.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ember.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,562 girls were recorded with the name Emberly between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 595 in 2018; its best national rank was #526 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #554 in 2020 to #688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,760 in 2015 to #688 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.

How common is Emberly?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,070
411 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,910
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#688
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,592 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emberly 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,592 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emberly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emberlys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emberly was born before 2020 — so the typical Emberly is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,562
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (2,929).

Is Emberly 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
−56
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−134
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,072
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.45×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.1%
Peak was 2018 (595)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#526
2018

Spellings of Emberly

Emberly is not the most common spelling — Kimberly is, with 83.9% against Emberly's 0.55%.

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 Emberly is used

Across 2016–2025, Emberly was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 909 girls, against 1 in 3,006 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

1110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 909
  2. 2Wyoming1 in 926
  3. 3Montana1 in 1,031
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 1,042
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 1,176
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 1,299
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 1,333
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 1,351

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.

Geographically, Emberly is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 54% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Emberly around the world

Where Emberly 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
    2016–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Emberly by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 134
Best rank ever
#526
2018
Peak year
2018
595 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,562
Count in 2025
411

Names similar to Emberly

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

AmberlyWaverlyEmberlynEmberleeEmberlynnCharlyEmberEmbreeEmberliKarlyEmberleyEmbrySherlyTimberlyKymberlyEmbrieEmberleighMarlyAverlyEverlyEmberliePearlyEmberlinKemberly

Names with a curve like Emberly

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

LennoxOaklynBriarLegacyEnsleyMeilaniNovaleeCalliopeDenverWaverlyBellamyEverlee

Sibling names for Emberly

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

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