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Emmalee

#3,303 in 2025Girls' name

Combination of Emma and Lee

Emmalee has been given to 9,008 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #3,303 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 441 recorded.

Babies named Emmalee, 2025

1 in 70,500

Emmalee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmalee: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Emma and Lee

coinages

What Emmalee means

Emmalee is a compound of Emma and Lee.

Origin, language, and formation

Emmalee is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Emmalee is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emma and Lee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,008 girls were recorded with the name Emmalee between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 441 in 2005; its best national rank was #634 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,657 in 2020 to #3,303 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #973 in 2015 to #3,303 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 Emmalee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,303
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmalee 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmalee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmalees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmalee was born before 2007 — so the typical Emmalee is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,779
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (3,596).

Is Emmalee 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
−520
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,646
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,330
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.17×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.7%
Peak was 2005 (441)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#634
2005

Spellings of Emmalee

Emmalee is not the most common spelling — Emilee is, with 39.5% against Emmalee's 14.8%.

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 Emmalee is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmalee was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 14,278 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 4,348
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 5,882
  3. 3Idaho1 in 6,667
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 7,143
  5. 5Florida1 in 9,091
  6. 6Utah1 in 9,091
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 9,091
  8. 8South Carolina1 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.

Emmalee around the world

Where Emmalee 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Emmalee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,303
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,646
Best rank ever
#634
2005
Peak year
2005
441 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,008
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Emmalee

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

EmmalynEmmalineEmmelineEmmarieEmmalynnAnnaleeNataleeMarileeEverleePaisleeShayleeBrayleeEmmileeRosaleeEmmieKinsleeNovaleeEmmylouCharleeEmmersonJayleeCayleeHarleeJubilee

Names with a curve like Emmalee

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

NatalyaJaidaKaylenAllyKaylynnMakenaKailynZoieJaceyJaylinCarleighHayleigh

Sibling names for Emmalee

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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