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Emmi

#1,669 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Emilia

Emmi has been given to 2,335 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,669 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Emmi, 2025

1 in 26,700

Emmi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Emilia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emmi means

Emmi is a diminutive of Emilia.

Origin, language, and formation

Emmi is used in Finnish and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emilia and Emmy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Emmi is pronounced /ˈemːi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,335 girls were recorded with the name Emmi between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,659 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,772 in 2020 to #1,669 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,301 in 2015 to #1,669 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 Emmi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,700
124 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,669
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmi 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmis were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,335
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (942).

Is Emmi 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
+206
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+103
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+632
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.53×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.6%
Peak was 2018 (127)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,659
2018

Spellings of Emmi

Emmi is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 67.5% against Emmi's 0.20%.

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 Emmi is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmi was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 19,730 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 6,250
  2. 2California1 in 10,000
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Ohio1 in 20,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 25,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 25,000

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.

Emmi around the world

Where Emmi 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
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2015–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1908–2025
    #4,571
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Emmi

People whose public names include Emmi, 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.

Emmi in other languages

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

EmiEmmaEmmyEmilia

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

Emmi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,669
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 103
Best rank ever
#1,659
2018
Peak year
2018
127 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,335
Count in 2025
124

Names similar to Emmi

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

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Names with a curve like Emmi

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

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Sibling names for Emmi

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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