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Emmy

#445 in 2025Girls' name

Rival, emulator, through Emily

Emmy has been given to 12,963 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #445 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 695 recorded.

Babies named Emmy, 2025

1 in 4,770

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmy: meaning, origin, and history

Rival, emulator, through Emily

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emmy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Emmy is used in English, Danish, French, German and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emily, Emilie, Emma, Émilie and Emilia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Emmy is pronounced /ˈɛmi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,963 girls were recorded with the name Emmy between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 695 in 2025; its best national rank was #445 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #518 in 2020 to #445 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #619 in 2015 to #445 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 Emmy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,770
695 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,310
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#445
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,307 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmy 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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,307 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmy was born before 2014 — so the typical Emmy is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,998
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (4,541).

Is Emmy 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
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+174
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.49×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (695)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#445
2025

Spellings of Emmy

Emmy is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 29.4% against Emmy's 0.42%.

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 Emmy is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmy was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,020 girls, against 1 in 2,359 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 9,091).

1198 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,020
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 1,190
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 1,515
  4. 4Wyoming1 in 1,538
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 1,563
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 1,587
  7. 7Iowa1 in 1,724
  8. 8Kansas1 in 1,754

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, Emmy is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 15% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Emmy around the world

Where Emmy 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
    #396
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #178
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #381
    in 2025
  • France
    1905–2025
    #138
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #246
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #328
    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 Emmy

People whose public names include Emmy, 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.

Emmy in other languages

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

EmaEmmaEmmi

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

Emmy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#445
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#445
2025
Peak year
2025
695 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,963
Count in 2025
695

Names similar to Emmy

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

EmmieEmmeEmmiEmmaleeEmmalynEmmahTommyAmmyEmmalineEmmelineEmmerEmmarieEmmeryEmmalynnSammyEmmilyEmmaKimmyEmmalyEmmylouEmmersonEmmelyJimmyEmmalin

Names with a curve like Emmy

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

MiraEmeliaMaryamCharliLucianaPhoenixAmirahHadassahSelahZahraJulietaAdelina

Sibling names for Emmy

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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