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Emeline

#2,759 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Emmeline

Emeline has been given to 3,612 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,759 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Emeline, 2025

1 in 53,500

Emeline over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emeline: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Emmeline

Germanic languages

What Emeline means

Emeline is a form of Emmeline.

Origin, language, and formation

Emeline is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmeline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,612 girls were recorded with the name Emeline between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 2016; its best national rank was #482 in 1886.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,558 in 2020 to #2,759 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,219 in 2015 to #2,759 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Emeline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,759
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emeline 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emeline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emelines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emeline was born before 1999 — so the typical Emeline is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,353
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2010s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (875).

Is Emeline 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
−387
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−201
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−540
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.6%
Peak was 2016 (104)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#482
1886

Spellings of Emeline

Emeline is not the most common spelling — Adeline is, with 32.0% against Emeline's 1.4%.

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 Emeline is used

Across 2016–2025, Emeline was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 32,375 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 33,333
  7. 7Maryland1 in 33,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 33,333

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.

Emeline around the world

Where Emeline 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2021–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,495
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Emeline

People whose public names include Emeline, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Emeline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,759
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 201
Best rank ever
#482
1886
Peak year
2016
104 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,612
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Emeline

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

EmeraldEmelynEmelieEmersenEvelineEmerieEmelinaMartineYazmineDelaineEmersynEmeriEmalineEvalineJoselineSabineKarolineRosalineEmeliaMaurineEmelinEmersonAvelineMadaline

Names with a curve like Emeline

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

IsobelArieLilliaArizonaIsaLucieAdahRosyEllenaLeonieZadieEvalyn

Sibling names for Emeline

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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