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Emmaline

#1,236 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Emmeline

Emmaline has been given to 7,422 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,236 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 313 recorded.

Babies named Emmaline, 2025

1 in 18,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmaline: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Emmeline

Germanic languages

What Emmaline means

Emmaline is a variant of Emmeline.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Emmaline → Emmeline. The family’s meaning is “unceasing, vigorous, brave”, recorded in the naming reference for Emmeline.

Origin, language, and formation

Emmaline is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmeline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,422 girls were recorded with the name Emmaline between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 313 in 2014; its best national rank was #455 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #973 in 2020 to #1,236 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #904 in 2015 to #1,236 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 Emmaline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,200
182 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,830
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,236
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,627 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmaline 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,627 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmaline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmalines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmaline was born before 2011 — so the typical Emmaline is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,244
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (2,808).

Is Emmaline 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
−38
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−263
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−332
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.1%
Peak was 2014 (313)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#455
1880

Spellings of Emmaline

Emmaline is not the most common spelling — Emmalee is, with 18.3% against Emmaline's 15.1%.

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 Emmaline is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmaline was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,961 girls, against 1 in 6,523 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

251 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,961
  2. 2Alabama1 in 2,439
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 2,439
  4. 4Idaho1 in 2,778
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 4,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 4,167
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 4,167
  8. 8Indiana1 in 4,348

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.

Emmaline around the world

Where Emmaline 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
    1996–2019
    #4,686
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1979–1979
    #535
    in 1979
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Emmaline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,236
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 263
Best rank ever
#455
1880
Peak year
2014
313 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,422
Count in 2025
182

Names similar to Emmaline

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

EmmelineEmmalynnEmmalynEmmaleeEmmersonGermaineCoralineCharlineSunshineDelphineMadalineEmmersynEmmaleighEmmarieRosalineKarolineJoselineKathrineEmmaroseMarcelineJackelineMaurineCelestineEmmajean

Names with a curve like Emmaline

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

AnnaleeArdenAveriAyleenLiviaHarleeZainabMilenaHarleighLandryCharleyAmia

Sibling names for Emmaline

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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