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Emmalyn

#1,137 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Emmeline

Emmalyn has been given to 8,847 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #1,137 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 693 recorded.

Babies named Emmalyn, 2025

1 in 16,300

Emmalyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmalyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Emmeline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emmalyn means

Emmalyn is a variant of Emmeline.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Emma + Lyn or a variant of Emmeline.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Emmalyn (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Emmalyn is used in English and Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmeline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,847 girls were recorded with the name Emmalyn between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 693 in 2015; its best national rank was #456 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #714 in 2020 to #1,137 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #456 in 2015 to #1,137 in 2025.

How common is Emmalyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,300
204 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,880
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,137
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,265 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmalyn 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 11,265 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmalyn was born before 2015 — so the typical Emmalyn is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
67.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,835
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 67.2% of all recorded uses (5,948).

Is Emmalyn 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
−11
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−423
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−681
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 2015 (693)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#456
2015

Spellings of Emmalyn

Emmalyn is not the most common spelling — Evalyn is, with 18.6% against Emmalyn's 17.2%.

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 Emmalyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmalyn was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,408 girls, against 1 in 3,477 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 11,111).

971 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 1,408
  2. 2Kansas1 in 1,695
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,818
  4. 4Alabama1 in 2,041
  5. 5Indiana1 in 2,041
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 2,083
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 2,174
  8. 8Missouri1 in 2,222

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.

Geographically, Emmalyn is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 21% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Emmalyn around the world

Where Emmalyn 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
    2013–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #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.

Notable people named Emmalyn

People whose public names include Emmalyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Emmalyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,137
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 423
Best rank ever
#456
2015
Peak year
2015
693 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,847
Count in 2025
204

Names similar to Emmalyn

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

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Names with a curve like Emmalyn

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

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Sibling names for Emmalyn

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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