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Emelin

#7,599 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Emelin has been given to 854 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #7,599 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Emelin, 2025

1 in 237,000

Emelin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emelin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emelin means

Emelin is a given name.

The naming story behind Emelin

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Emelin in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 141.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Eng. Teu. work ruler”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Emelin, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 854 girls were recorded with the name Emelin between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2006; its best national rank was #2,814 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,402 in 2020 to #7,599 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,297 in 2015 to #7,599 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 Emelin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,599
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emelin 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emelin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emelins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emelin was born before 2007 — so the typical Emelin is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
854
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Choose a decade

2000s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (461).

Is Emelin 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
−574
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,803
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,302
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.6%
Peak was 2006 (62)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,814
2004

Spellings of Emelin

Emelin is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 54.9% against Emelin's 0.07%.

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 Emelin is used

Across 1910–2025, Emelin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 189,918 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Virginia1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5South Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Emelin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emelin around the world

Where Emelin 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 Australia
    1975–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Emelin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,599
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,803
Best rank ever
#2,814
2004
Peak year
2006
62 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
854
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Emelin

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

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Sibling names for Emelin

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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