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Emese

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Emese has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 1964. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Emese, 2016

1 in 612,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emese: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emese means

Emese is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Emese is used in Hungarian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Emese is pronounced [ˈɛmɛʃɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 37 girls were recorded with the name Emese between 1964 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,062 in 1964.

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 Emese?

Emese had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emese 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emese. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emeses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emese was born before 2002 — so the typical Emese is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
37
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Emese 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,062
1964

Spellings of Emese

Emese is not the most common spelling — Elise is, with 28.8% against Emese's 0.01%.

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.

Emese around the world

Where Emese 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
    2009–2018
    #3,985
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Emese by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,062
1964
Peak year
2006
6 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
37
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Emese

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

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Sibling names for Emese

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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