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Emi

#882 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Emi has been given to 4,360 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #882 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 303 recorded.

Babies named Emi, 2025

1 in 10,900

Emi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emi: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Emi means

Emi can be written with different Japanese character combinations. The cited examples combine an e element referring to favour or benefit, or to a picture or painting, with a mi element referring to beauty. Other kanji combinations are possible.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,360 girls were recorded with the name Emi between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 303 in 2025; its best national rank was #882 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,358 in 2020 to #882 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,397 in 2015 to #882 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 Emi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,900
303 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,300
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#882
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,585 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emi 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,585 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emi was born before 2014 — so the typical Emi is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (1,523).

Is Emi 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
+114
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+476
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+515
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (303)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#882
2025

Where Emi is used

Across 2016–2025, Emi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 244 girls, against 1 in 7,147 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

1410 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 244
  2. 2California1 in 3,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 3,571
  4. 4New York1 in 7,692
  5. 5Utah1 in 7,692
  6. 6Texas1 in 9,091
  7. 7Arizona1 in 10,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 10,000

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.

Emi around the world

Where Emi 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
    1997–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2013–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • France
    1983–2025
    #1,059
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Emi

People whose public names include Emi, 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.

Emi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Emi. Linked forms have their own page here.

Emmi

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Emi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#882
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 476
Best rank ever
#882
2025
Peak year
2025
303 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,360
Count in 2025
303

Names similar to Emi

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

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Names with a curve like Emi

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

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Sibling names for Emi

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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