Emberlyn
#1,320 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Emberlyn has been given to 2,196 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #1,320 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 238 recorded.
Babies named Emberlyn, 2025
1 in 19,600
Emberlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Emberlyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 19,600
- 169 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 9,510
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,320
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 13,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Emberlyn 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 13,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emberlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Emberlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Emberlyn was born before 2020 — so the typical Emberlyn is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,196
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (1,126).
Is Emberlyn 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
- −60
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +132
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +591
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.59×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.0%
- Peak was 2021 (238)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Emberlyn
Emberlyn is not the most common spelling — Emersyn is, with 37.8% against Emberlyn's 3.7%.
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 Emberlyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Emberlyn was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 2,500 girls, against 1 in 10,289 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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.
Emberlyn around the world
Where Emberlyn 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.
- Canada2020–2021#1,676in 2021
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Emberlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Emberlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Emberlyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Emberlyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Emberlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.