Emeli
#4,385 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Emeli has been given to 1,417 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #4,385 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 91 recorded.
Babies named Emeli, 2025
1 in 104,000
Emeli 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Emeli?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 50,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,385
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Emeli 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emeli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Emelis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Emeli was born before 2008 — so the typical Emeli is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,417
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (651).
Is Emeli 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
- −541
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +820
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,140
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.33×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.2%
- Peak was 2005 (91)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.1% average annual change
Spellings of Emeli
Emeli is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 61.3% against Emeli's 0.10%.
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 Emeli is used
Across 1910–2025, Emeli was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 112,509 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
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. Emeli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Emeli around the world
Where Emeli 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 & Wales2012–2021#5,581in 2021
- Scotland2012–2018#502in 2018
- Northern Ireland2012–2013#167in 2013
- Ireland2013–2014#876in 2014
- South Australia1970–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Emeli by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Emeli
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Emeli
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.