Emmah
#15,605 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Emmah has been given to 956 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #15,605 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 78 recorded.
Babies named Emmah, 2025
1 in 663,000
Emmah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Emmah?
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
- #15,605
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Emmah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Emmahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmah was born before 2010 — so the typical Emmah is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 47.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 956
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (455).
Is Emmah 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
- −4,202
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −8,587
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −12,597
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.09×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.4%
- Peak was 2008 (78)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.3% average annual change
Spellings of Emmah
Emmah is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 80.3% against Emmah's 0.10%.
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 Emmah is used
Across 1910–2025, Emmah was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 304,781 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 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. Emmah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Emmah around the world
Where Emmah 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.
- France2010–2024#4,590in 2024
- Canada2005–2020#2,936in 2020
- South Australia1987–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Emmah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Emmah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Emmah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.