Emme

#2,282 in 2025Girls' name

Rival, emulator, through Emily

Emme has been given to 3,613 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #2,282 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 227 recorded.

Babies named Emme, 2025

1 in 41,400

Emme over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emme: meaning, origin, and history

Rival, emulator, through Emily

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emme means

Emme belongs to the name family reached through Emme → Emily. Its meaning is “rival, emulator”.

Origin, language, and formation

Emme is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emily.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,613 girls were recorded with the name Emme between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 227 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,118 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,611 in 2020 to #2,282 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,449 in 2015 to #2,282 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 Emme?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 41,400; 80 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 20,100; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #2,282; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 28,725 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Emme 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emme. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmes were born

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

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 92.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 3,608; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (1,617).

Is Emme 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: +51; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −671; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −833; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.50×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 35.2%; Peak was 2009 (227)
Years since peak: 16; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,118; 2009

Spellings of Emme

Emme is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 64.1% against Emme's 0.30%.

Emma64.1%776,439
Mae9.5%114,835
Erma4.5%54,949
Eve2.4%29,510
Gemma2.2%26,042
Ember1.9%22,646
Evie1.8%21,857
Elma1.8%21,703

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 Emme is used

Across 2016–2025, Emme was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 15,746 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Massachusetts1 in 5,263
2New York1 in 10,000
3Connecticut1 in 11,111
4California1 in 12,500
5Florida1 in 12,500
6New Jersey1 in 12,500
7Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
8Utah1 in 12,500

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.

Emme around the world

Where Emme 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
1998–2025
#2,278
in 2025
Scotland
2008–2024
#790
in 2024
Northern Ireland
2008–2025
#397
in 2025
Ireland
2012–2020
#628
in 2020
France
1900–1927
#1,028
in 1927
Canada
2000–2024
#2,256
in 2024
South Australia
1999–2013
#818
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Emme by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #2,282
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 671
Best rank ever: #1,118; 2009
Peak year: 2009; 227 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 3,613
Count in 2025: 80

Names similar to Emme

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

Emmi Emmy Emmie Emmah Emmer Emmarie Emmery Emmily Emmalyn Emmalee Emmaly Emmalynn Emmylou Emmerson Emmely Emmeline Emmaline Emmalin Emmelyn Emmett Emmary Emmelia Emmersyn Emmaleigh

Names with a curve like Emme

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

Dayanna Malak Nariah Jaleah Miyah Skylee Lilyann Gwenyth Jazzlyn Mayah Amiah Yarely

Sibling names for Emme

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shira Ireland Yamilet Desire Briley Mariyah Natalya Unique

For a brother

Jordyn Amare Chace Kaeden Broderick Aditya Rylee Konner

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