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Emmeline

#922 in 2025Girls' name

Unceasing, vigorous, brave

Emmeline has been given to 6,152 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #922 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 370 recorded.

Babies named Emmeline, 2025

1 in 11,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmeline: meaning, origin, and history

Unceasing, vigorous, brave

Germanic languages

What Emmeline means

Emmeline means “unceasing, vigorous, brave”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Medieval English form of Old French Ameline, diminutive form of Amélie, cognate to English Amelia.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Emmeline is used in English and German. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Emmeline comes through Old French Ameline.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ameline and Amélie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,152 girls were recorded with the name Emmeline between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 370 in 2017; its best national rank was #753 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #864 in 2020 to #922 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #810 in 2015 to #922 in 2025.

How common is Emmeline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,700
284 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,660
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#922
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,092 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmeline 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,092 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmeline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmelines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmeline was born before 2016 — so the typical Emmeline is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,905
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Choose a decade

2010s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (2,862).

Is Emmeline 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
+17
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−58
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−112
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.8%
Peak was 2017 (370)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#753
2017

Spellings of Emmeline

Emmeline is not the most common spelling — Emmaline is, with 24.7% against Emmeline's 20.5%.

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 Emmeline is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmeline was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,449 girls, against 1 in 4,721 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in 33,333).

369 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,449
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 2,083
  3. 3Washington1 in 2,632
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 2,778
  5. 5Virginia1 in 3,125
  6. 6Colorado1 in 3,333
  7. 7Oregon1 in 3,448
  8. 8Illinois1 in 3,846

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, Emmeline is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 62% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Emmeline around the world

Where Emmeline 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
    1996–2025
    #436
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2018
    #361
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    1975–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #6,466
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #391
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,191
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #403
    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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Emmeline

People whose public names include Emmeline, 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.

Emmeline in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Emmeline. Linked forms have their own page here.

EmmelinEmmelina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Emmeline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#922
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 58
Best rank ever
#753
2017
Peak year
2017
370 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,152
Count in 2025
284

Names similar to Emmeline

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

EmmalineEmmalynnEmmersonEmmalynEmmaleeCharlineSunshineCoralineMadalineGermaineEmmersynEmmaleighEmmarieRosalineKarolineJoselineDelphineEmmaroseJackelineMarcelineEmmajeanEmmilineJazzmineKathrine

Names with a curve like Emmeline

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

LivNalaScarletteSloanElliotHadleeHarmoniMilanaJemmaKensleyItzayanaAubrielle

Sibling names for Emmeline

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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