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Emilyn

#5,134 in 2025Girls' name

Blend of Emy and Lyn

Emilyn has been given to 1,525 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #5,134 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 96 recorded.

Babies named Emilyn, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emilyn: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Emy and Lyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emilyn means

Emilyn is a blend of Emy and Lyn.

Origin, language, and formation

Emilyn is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emy and Lyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,525 girls were recorded with the name Emilyn between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 96 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,021 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,513 in 2020 to #5,134 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,565 in 2015 to #5,134 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 Emilyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,134
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emilyn 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emilyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emilyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emilyn was born before 2012 — so the typical Emilyn is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,520
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (746).

Is Emilyn 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
−1,073
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,621
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,569
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.0%
Peak was 2012 (96)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,021
2012

Spellings of Emilyn

Emilyn is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 50.3% against Emilyn's 0.09%.

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 Emilyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Emilyn was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 53,670 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Emilyn around the world

Where Emilyn 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
    2020–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2017
    #3,188
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #490
    in 1992

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.

Emilyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,134
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,621
Best rank ever
#2,021
2012
Peak year
2012
96 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,525
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Emilyn

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

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Sibling names for Emilyn

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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