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Emileigh

#15,597 in 2025Girls' name

Rival, emulator, through Emily

Emileigh has been given to 1,383 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #15,597 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Emileigh, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emileigh: meaning, origin, and history

Rival, emulator, through Emily

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emileigh means

Emileigh belongs to the name family reached through Emileigh → Emily. Its meaning is “rival, emulator”.

Origin, language, and formation

Emileigh is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emily.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,383 girls were recorded with the name Emileigh between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,717 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,926 in 2020 to #15,597 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,790 in 2015 to #15,597 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 Emileigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,597
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emileigh 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emileigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emileighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emileigh was born before 2006 — so the typical Emileigh is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,383
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (514).

Is Emileigh 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
−7,499
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−10,671
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−11,807
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.13×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.2%
Peak was 2005 (61)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,717
2002

Spellings of Emileigh

Emileigh is not the most common spelling — Rileigh is, with 18.5% against Emileigh's 6.7%.

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 Emileigh is used

Across 1910–2025, Emileigh was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 286,686 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Mississippi1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Emileigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Emileigh around the world

Where Emileigh 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
    1997–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2000–2016
    #2,808
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #475
    in 2002

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

Emileigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,597
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 10,671
Best rank ever
#2,717
2002
Peak year
2005
61 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,383
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Emileigh

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

EmilianaKaeleighJayleighAubreighAnsleighAvaleighCaileighEmaleighAnaleighFinleighAdaleighHaileighEmillyEmilynnEmilynBrileighKynleighZayleighEmillieMayleighKinleighMaeleighKenleighCalleigh

Sibling names for Emileigh

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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