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Emelyn

#2,303 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Emelyn has been given to 2,783 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #2,303 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Emelyn, 2025

1 in 42,000

Emelyn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emelyn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emelyn means

Emelyn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Emelyn is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,783 girls were recorded with the name Emelyn between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 2013; its best national rank was #1,648 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,160 in 2020 to #2,303 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,898 in 2015 to #2,303 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 Emelyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,000
79 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,303
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,088 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emelyn 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emelyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emelyn was born before 2011 — so the typical Emelyn is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,639
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (1,080).

Is Emelyn 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
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−143
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−405
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.2%
Peak was 2013 (129)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,648
2013

Spellings of Emelyn

Emelyn is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 49.5% against Emelyn's 0.15%.

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 Emelyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Emelyn was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 23,716 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6New York1 in 25,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 25,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 25,000

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.

Emelyn around the world

Where Emelyn 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
    2013–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2014
    #5,394
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Emelyn

People whose public names include Emelyn, 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.

Emelyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,303
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 143
Best rank ever
#1,648
2013
Peak year
2013
129 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,783
Count in 2025
79

Names similar to Emelyn

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

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Names with a curve like Emelyn

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

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Sibling names for Emelyn

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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